Our team
and the roots of the Race-Class Academy
Ian Haney López
Ian Haney López is the originator of the race-class approach to beating dog whistle politics. He is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, and specializes in Critical Race Theory.
Jacob Kornbluth
Jacob Kornbluth is the award-winning director of the documentaries Inequality for All and Saving Capitalism, both with Robert Reich. He produced, directed, and co-wrote the Race-Class Academy videos.
Brittaney Carter
Brittaney Carter is a communications strategist and an advocate for racial and economic justice with experiences on the #BantheBox and #PrisonPhoneJustice campaigns. She took the lead on the Race-Class Academy discussion guides.
The Race-Class Academy grows out of Ian’s scholarship and activism. In Dog Whistle Politics (2014), he detailed the fifty-year history of coded racism in American politics. He then co-chaired the AFL-CIO’s Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice, along with Dorian Warren and Ana Avendaño, and co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project, along with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Heather McGhee. In Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America (2019), Ian explains Trump’s complex relationship with dog whistling and further develops the race-class response. Now, he has founded the Race-Class Academy, as well as Project Juntos.
