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Ignite research, secure funding, and spark vital conversations for equity
The George Washington University Institute for Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Equity (Equity Institute)
The Equity Institute leverages the resources of a premier research university and invests in transformative community partnerships with the goal of eradicating racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequity worldwide.
Our Motivation
- DC Labor Inequality
- DC Education Inequality
- DC Health Inequity
- Housing Inequity Nationwide
- Criminal Justice Inequity
- Inequity Nationwide
The Change We Are Enacting
Increase Impactful Research
The EI creates infrastructure to support GWU researchers’ writing, teaching, publishing, and fundraising dedicated to eradicating racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequity.
Invest in Authentic Community Partnerships
The EI forms community based participatory research partnerships to invest new knowledge and other resources that help reduce inequity in Washington DC, the United States, and the world.
Disseminate Actionable Policy
The EI translates and disseminates its interdisciplinary research into actionable policy interventions that tangibly and measurably increase equity in marginalized communities.
Convene Decision-Makers
The EI gathers academic, community, private sector, and government leaders to design solutions that will increase racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity.
Equip Students to Serve
The EI trains students in best practices of community based participatory research to equip them to serve and lead with humility and integrity.
"The university’s decision to charter a new research institute dedicated to the principles of equality, fairness and freedom means everything. It means that at the dawn of our third century, GW has dedicated its resources to support faculty and students who seek to improve societies near and far, by contributing to the work of eradicating discrimination, bigotry, prejudice and inequality—to advancing the cause of justice, both here in the United States and around the world.”
Dayna Bowen Matthew
Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, GW Law; Faculty Director, Institute for Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Equity
“Concretely there are already hundreds of people not incarcerated as a result of the work EI has supported, and we expect that number to grow rapidly as we onboard new jurisdictions. This kind of work is incredibly energizing for students and faculty, and it shows how GW can take a leadership position in criminal justice reform and do the kind of work that no one else is doing.”
Don Braman
Associate Professor of Law, GW Law
For all Equity Institute inquiries, please email our Equity Institute Project Director, aleshagarvin
law [dot] gwu [dot] edu (Alesha Garvin).