Co-Founder; Co-DirectorEmbrace Race
As Co-founder and Co-director of EmbraceRace, Andrew Grant-Thomas (he/him) leads efforts to support parents, educators and other caregivers to raise children who are thoughtful, informed, and brave about race so that US multiracial democracy can thrive. He is dad to Rio and Lena, life partner to Melissa, and a long-time racial justice researcher and advocate. In stops that include the Harvard Civil Rights Project, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, and the Proteus Fund, Andrew has worked on issues from PK-12 segregation to redistricting, immigration to the criminal legal system, and implicit bias to structural racialization. He champions efforts that can make a meaningful difference for real people and communities—not 100 years from now, but in his lifetime and the lifetimes of his 13 and 16-year-old children. Andrew earned his BA (literature) from Yale University, and his MA (international relations) and Ph.D. (political science) from The University of Chicago.