Racial Data Lab

The Racial Data Lab includes data scientists, lawyers, scholars, and organizers who work together with community partners to investigate racist problems and propose antiracist solutions. We feature our work on an interactive website for use by advocates, journalists, scholars, policymakers, and all who are working for antiracist social change.

The criteria that guide the Racial Data Lab’s investigations include:

1. Relationship to racism.We focus on issues involving the exclusion and subordination of people of color.
2. Community-identified need.We aim to work in partnership with communities that are most impacted by the racist policies that we are trying to change. Accordingly, we prioritize research and policy analysis that community partners have identified as central to their work.
3. Expertise.We believe that people most impacted by racist policies hold critical knowledge and insights about antiracist solutions. We also recognize that antiracist scholars and researchers bring important perspectives to organizing and policy work. We believe in building powerful collaborations between experts who contribute to our projects.
4. Potentially Transformative.We focus on issues that have the potential for transformative social change. We aim to address the root causes of racism rather than its symptoms

The Racial Data Lab included multiple projects that spanned the work of the Center for Antiracist Research.

Founding Team Members