IARA News

Answer pressing questions, discover new methodologies, and more with our Race Research and Policy Portal — a free database featuring easy-to-read summaries of peer-reviewed research.

This summer’s recommended reads from the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project includes autobiographies, graphic novels, children’s books, and much more.

Featuring IARA in The Harvard Crimson

The scholarly literature is clear that DEI programs help universities recruit, retain, and teach a more racially diverse pool of talented students and faculty.

By Erica Licht and Khalil Gibran Muhammad 

The Ash Center’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Archon Fung discuss how without a more robust commitment to upholding and protecting multiracial democracy the United States won’t be to solve its […]

Cambridge, MA—The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project, a research project working on long-term solutions to achieving racial equity in organizations at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance […]

Our work at the Ash Center is dedicated to tackling some of the toughest challenges facing democracy today—from ensuring equal ballot access, to advancing Indigenous sovereignty and promoting racial justice […]

Featuring the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project

As the IARA Truth and Transformation Conference keynote speaker, Lee asks if the US is ready for a national racial reckoning.