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Welcome to the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Societies
Using rigorous research and community-informed approaches to accelerate racial and ethnic justice so everyone can flourish
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An innovative approach to a national conversation inspired by art, public programs, and essays
Join us as we envision new perspectives on migration, America's diverse communities, and how people come together across differences.
Around the world, race and ethnicity are related to the health of democracies, migration, environmental justice, and national and geopolitical stability. The institute will help focus Stanford’s considerable resources on creating collaborations between faculty and organizations outside of the university to identify pragmatic interventions that address some of the most pressing problems in people’s lives.
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A university priority
At our soft launch event, we celebrated faculty and community partners, introduced our first cohort of fellows, and shared the institute’s vision and upcoming programs.
Real-world solutions
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Our new faculty seed grant program
Our new faculty seed grant program
We are accepting funding proposals to support innovative research, with a strong preference for faculty working with an external partner and priority given to projects with the potential to help communities thrive in the context of the movement of people. Faculty can apply as individuals or part of a research team.
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Global reach
Assistant Professor Guilherme Lichand, an IAJS and Stanford Impact Labs fellow, is leading a team that is taking innovative approaches to collecting data from students and educators in Brazil to identify inequities in the country's school system.
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Community partners
Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson, an IAJS and Stanford Impact Labs fellow, is working with the civic sector, local government, and historically Black colleges and universities in Jackson, Miss., to find a shared understanding of how the breakdown of the city’s relationship with the state left Jackson with an obsolete water system.
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Multi-disciplinary approach
Dr. Alyce Adams, the Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and IAJS guest speaker, is collaborating with breast cancer peer navigators to illuminate the importance of involving patients in medical research and treatment decisions.
Cultivating public understanding
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"The Day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Came to Stanford"
In 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech on poverty and racism at Stanford. This year, we commemorated the event with an IAJS co-sponsored screening and discussion of King’s speech.
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Our visiting artist
In award-winning Ethiopian-American vocalist, songwriter, and composer Meklit Hadero's class, students are exploring how songwriting and storytelling are powerful mediums for transforming human relationships across difference.
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A nationwide conversation
IAJS and Zócalo Public Square are teaming up to explore the future of race and ethnicity in America through a year-long project addressing a central question, "What Can Become of Us?," through art, public programs, and essays.
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Journalism fellows
Nalan Sipar has observed immigrants are underserved by Germany’s mainstream media, and she's seeking to change that. Both she and Bettina Chang, co-founder of a Chicago-based civic journalism lab, are IAJS-sponsored Knight Fellows.
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