African American Policy Forum
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The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1996, as a media-monitoring think tank and information clearing house focused on issues of gender and diversity. It seeks to build bridges between scholarly research and public discourse in order to address inequality and discrimination.
The AAPF was co-founded by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
, a law professor at Columbia University
and the University of California at Los Angeles, and Luke Harris, Chair of the Political Science Department at Vassar College
. Crenshaw is the AAPF's Executive Director; the Chairman of its Board of Directors is George Lipsitz
.
The AAPF's projects include an Affirmative Action Research and Policy Consortium and a Multiracial Literacy and Leadership Initiative. In 2007, it organized a ten-day international workshop, "Globalizing Affirmative Action", which was attended by twenty-five scholars and advocates representing five countries.
The AAPF was co-founded by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a prominent figure in Critical Race Theory and currently a professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School specializing in race and gender issues....
, a law professor at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and the University of California at Los Angeles, and Luke Harris, Chair of the Political Science Department at Vassar College
Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
. Crenshaw is the AAPF's Executive Director; the Chairman of its Board of Directors is George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz is an American Studies Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness. He is a lead scholar in social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular...
.
The AAPF's projects include an Affirmative Action Research and Policy Consortium and a Multiracial Literacy and Leadership Initiative. In 2007, it organized a ten-day international workshop, "Globalizing Affirmative Action", which was attended by twenty-five scholars and advocates representing five countries.