Our Research

IARA identifies effective strategies for advancing racial equity, from policymaking to organizational change and community-led organizing.

Explore IARA’s research by topic


  • Healthcare Institutions

    Healthcare Institutions

    COVID-19 and the 2020 wave of racial justice demonstrations in the United States moved many healthcare organizations to enact antiracist change goals. Yet, many of these commitments lacked effective strategies and accountability mechanisms. IARA conducted a one-year study of existing antiracist interventions in healthcare organizations and a review of authoritative evidence for institutional accountability.

  • Bias Education

    Bias Education

    The Bias Ed Project seeks to inspire parents, teachers, and school leaders to disrupt racism, sexism, xenophobia, and other pernicious and harmful biases in early childhood education and curricula.

  • Race, Research & Policy Portal

    Race, Research & Policy Portal

    Our Race, Research & Policy Portal (RRAPP) is a free online resource for antiracism. It features research summaries on diversity, racial equity, and organizational change across sectors. Each summary focuses on antiracist solutions, listing clear takeaways in a short format.RRAPP provides easy and free access to antiracist research. Its purpose is to help changemakers make…

  • Global Processes of Justice,
Truth–Telling and Healing

    Global Processes of Justice, Truth–Telling and Healing

    IARA is conducting a three-year project, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to survey international examples of truth-telling, justice, and healing efforts, including truth commissions, tribunals, and community-based programs. The goal is to better understand what accountability looks like for these endeavors and what lessons we can take going forward.

  • Private Sector

    Private Sector

    With its emerging work in the private sector, IARA envisions the establishment of standardized accountability practices and measures for corporate racial equity efforts.

  • Emerging Projects

    Emerging Projects

    Put simply, IARA’s research focuses on one question: what is needed for long-term, antiracist institutional change? In order to understand institutional antiracism more broadly, IARA’s research explores specific sectors, as well as the threads that connect them.

Recent News

  • Letter to our community

    Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad announces the IARA Project will move to Princeton University at the beginning of 2025, in this reflective year-end letter.

  • ‘The writing was on the wall’

    Five insights on race, class, and gender in the 2024 presidential election from Professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Leah Wright Rigueur

  • Ash Center Event Examines Rightward Shift of Black and Latino Voters

    Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Professor Leah Wright Rigueur examined how Black and Latino voters in the 2024 presidential election shifted rightward because of their broader dissatisfaction with the Democratic […]