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Mapping the Policy Landscape and Equity Impact At the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, our research and engagement supports the mission of ensuring that all people and communities have the opportunity to succeed. This call to promote opportunities for future success is never more important than within our education systems. As a society, we must look to policies and practices that can support our youngest citizens and support families that are most in need.

Institutional Interventions to Prevent Implicit Bias from Undermining Organizational Diversity In support of the The Columbus Commitment: Achieving Pay Equity, launched by the Columbus Women’s Commission and focused on the issue of the gender pay gap, the Kirwan Institute presents our latest report Institutional Interventions to Prevent Implicit Bias from Under

Recent Article Highlights Suspension Disparity An article recently released from The Blade demonstrates that black students are suspended more often than classmates. Read the entire article here, then come back to check out the interactive map below.

COLUMBUS, OH – During the recent 2018 Leadership Summit hosted by Ohio State Extension, Shannon Ginther, First Lady and Chair of the Columbus Women’s Commission, recognized the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity for its applied research in areas of equity. Regarding Kirwan as a “gem” at Ohio State, Ginther acknowledged the Institute’s potential to act as a leader at the University, encouraging more initiatives that address the current disparities in Columbus.

By Kip Holley In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama brought forth a new group of voters to the polls. These voters—primarily made up of women of color and those living in poverty—helped to propel him to the presidency in 2008 and to re-election four years later.

Renewing Our Call to Action responds to the October 2015 Youth Perspective Report completed by the City of Columbus to support their expanding work in the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative.

The release of the 2017 State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review comes at a very important time. More than ever, Kirwan and our partners in equity work can see the importance of how we shape the narrative of race and equity in this country. For the last five years, the State of the Science has been one of the ways that we have been able to add depth to this often one-sided narrative, by pointing to the complex underpinnings of how peoples’ conception of race influences our perceptions, thoughts, and relationships.

The Work of Financial Justice is as Important as Ever This past month marked the ten year anniversary of the onset of the Great Recession.

The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity is proud to present its first ever Active Bystander Training. Facilitated by Researcher and Facilitation Specialist Lena Tenney, the training is a collaborative effort between The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; and the Kirwan Institute. Although the session has already reached capacity for in-person attendance, we welcome participation through a livestream of the event.

Structural discrimination has led to an unconscious association between blackness and poverty and neighborhood disinvestment. Here’s what we can do to change the status quo. By Jillian Olinger and Kelly Capatosto, published on Shelterforce

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Download and View Report Weinland Park is not the model of equitable and inclusive neighborhood revitalization that communities should duplicate, but it is an example of what an attempt can look like in the middle American city.

The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity’s award-winning documentary “Free To Ride” returns to Gateway Film Center Friday, June 23 at 7pm by popular demand. “Free To Ride” made its sold-out official Columbus premiere on April 12 as part of Gateway Film Center’s Ohio Grown Series and returns for a week-long run from June 23-29. For additional showtimes please visit http://gatewayfilmcenter.org/free-to-ride/.

June 6 | 3–4 PM (EST) In a new white paper, Kirwan Institute Research Associate Kelly Capatosto turns the lens toward predictive analytics in child welfare, the potential hazards of applying these models without accounting for implicit racial bias and other cognitive and structural barriers that face communities of color, and how those hazards can be navigated.

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Studies consistently demonstrate that diversity in the health care workforce enriches the quality of health care, medical education, and research. Yet, while academic medicine has made progress in addressing overt discrimination, unconscious biases continue to impede the goal of making medical schools and teaching hospitals more diverse, according to a new publication. The new publication is based on the 2014 Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Forum that was convened by the AAMC and The Ohio State University Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

We are pleased to advise you that Arthur R. James, MD, associate professor-clinical, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has accepted our offer to serve as the interim executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, his appointment is effective May 1, 2017, through April 30, 2018.

A new report from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity argues that implicit bias manifests in the housing and lending markets partly due to a historical and deeply rooted association between race and risk. The report examines how historical and structural racism affects racial disparities in housing and credit outcomes today. Further, by applying the lens of racial cognition – how race impacts the way individuals think and behave – the report uncovers the influence of implicit racial bias in housing and lending.