john a. powell

john a. powell is an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racialization, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy. He is currently executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State and holds the Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the University's College of Law. Previously, he founded the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota; was national legal director of the ACLU; lived and worked in India and Africa; co-founded the Poverty & Race Research Action Council; and taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia.