Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing
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IGPA engages a wide range of policy-oriented faculty across the University System who collaborate within focused working groups. Each of these groups is comprised of dozens of faculty researchers representing each of the three System universities. As questions arise in both the public sphere and academia, IGPA scholars use the latest research methods and work together to evaluate current affairs, ask tough questions, and identify possible solutions.
Members of this working group engage in research and formulate policies promoting justice, inclusion, equity, and fullest life chances, through innovative and often interdisciplinary lenses.
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sage Kim
Associate Professor, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago

Robin Fretwell Wilson
Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Professor, Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Working group members

Nathan Castillo
Affiliation Assistant Professor, College of Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email nathanc@illinois.edu

Joseph Cheng
Affiliation Research Professor and Director of Special Projects, Gies School of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jlcheng@illinois.edu

Judith Cook
Affiliation Professor and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email jcook@uic.edu

Jacinda Dariotis
Affiliation Pampered Chef, Ltd., Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency, Professor and Director of the Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email dariotis@illinois.edu

Tamara Fuller
Affiliation Research Associate Professor and Director of the Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email t-fuller@illinois.edu

Rosalba Hernandez
Affiliation Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email rherna17@illinois.edu

Jan Kitajewski
Affiliation Sweeney Professor of Basic Sciences and Head, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email kitaj@uic.edu

Jonathan Klein
Affiliation Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and the Savithri and Samuel Raj Professor of Pediatrics, Executive Vice-head of the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email jonklein@uic.edu

Brenda Koester
Affiliation Associate Director, Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email bkoester@illinois.edu

Amanda Lewis
Affiliation Distinguished Professor and Director of Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago
Email aelewis@uic.edu

Phoenix Matthews
Affiliation Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and Professor, Department of Population Health Nursing Science, College of Nursing | University of Illinois Chicago
Email aliciak@uic.edu

Brian Ogolsky
Affiliation Associate Professor, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email bogolsky@illinois.edu

Tara Powell
Affiliation Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email tlpowell@illinois.edu

Brent Roberts
Affiliation Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email bwrobrts@illinois.edu

Arden Rowell
Affiliation Professor, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email karowell@illinois.edu

Anne Silvis
Affiliation Assistant Dean and Program Leader, Community and Economic Development | University of Illinois Extension
Email asilvis@illinois.edu

P. S. Sriraj
Affiliation Research Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Transportation Center, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email sriraj@uic.edu

James Swartz
Affiliation Professor, College of Social Work, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email jaswartz@uic.edu

Nikolas Theodore
Affiliation Professor and Head, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email theodore@uic.edu

Kate Wegmann
Affiliation Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email kwegmann@illinois.edu

Stevan Weine
Affiliation Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Global Health, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email smweine@uic.edu
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