Faculty, staff and students launch new multidisciplinary research initiative (RIPI)

This month, Wake Forest University faculty, staff and students launched a new multidisciplinary research initiative called the Race, Inequality and Policy Initiative (RIPI). RIPI is a multidisciplinary group created to support research, teaching and community engagement activities that address racial, ethnic and gender inequities.

RIPI will offer faculty research seminars, race and policy conferences, free opportunities to hear relevant speakers and a student-led mentoring program.

More information is available on the RIPI website, including information on fall speakers. A virtual library with materials on inequalities in the criminal justice system, immigration, education, environmental policy and housing is available on the site, as well as educational information on racism and implicit bias.

The Race, Inequality and Policy Initiative can be found on Twitter @race_policy