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Regional reform is possible when disparate groups come together in coalitions for change. Panelists discussed the political implications of interracial efforts.
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Maya Wiley is the founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion. CSI is a national applied research and advocacy organization which works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism. CSI partners with communities of color and other allies to create strategies and build policy reform models to end racial disparity and promote equal opportunity. A civil rights attorney and social justice advocate, she worked for the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Legal Department on education and race discrimination cases, and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. on access to health care.
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Guy-Uriel E. Charles is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Political Psychology. He clerked for The Honorable Damon J. Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo School of Law prior to joining the University of Minnesota. He is an attorney and a member of the Michigan Bar Association. Professor Charles teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, election law, law and politics, and race. He is the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year 2002-2003 at the University of Minnesota Law School.
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Myron Orfield is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Director of the Institute on Race and Poverty and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is an authority on civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process. He has undertaken research involving the legal, demographic and land use profiles of various American metropolitan areas. His second book, American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality (Brookings 2002) is a compilation of his work involving the nation's twenty-five largest regions.
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