Anna Julia Cooper Center
Collaborative to Advance Equity
Professor Karla Holloway, Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, Professor Shayla Nunnally, and Professor Blair LM Kelley at The White House during the advancing equity conference , November 13, 2015.
On November 13, 2015, The Anna Julia Cooper Center and the White House Council on Women and Girls hosted a full day conference at the White House. The forum included scholars, advocates, foundation leaders, policy think tanks, and Obama Administration officials. All gathered with the goal of advancing opportunities and equity for women and girls of color.
During this conference, the Anna Julia Cooper Center and Wake Forest University announced formation of The Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research. The Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research was a voluntary affiliation of institutions in the United States committed to taking meaningful action to support and improve research addressing the lives of women and girls of color. The Anna Julia Cooper Center acted as administrator of the Collaborative through 2020.
Collaborative members made commitments to invest resources in research at their own institutions over the next five years and to work collaboratively with other members to build new connections, share promising practices, and support the advancement of research addressing the lives of women and girls of color.
All Collaborative members agreed to a set of commitments focused on advancing research on women and girls of color.
Collaborative members acknowledged the critical need for increased research investigating women and girls of color and the value this research holds in advancing equity for women and girls of color
Collaborative members made commitments to support and improve research about women and girls of color at their own institution, with commitments varying according to the unique mission, structure, and resources of each member
Collaborative members worked independently and collectively to build broad and deep efforts to establish a landscape of existing scholarship and to identify and address research areas needing greater focus; to provide and seek resources to support opportunities for research; and to establish, support, and extend partnerships with one another and other institutions to advance research addressing women and girls of color.
READ the Collaborative to Advance Equity First Annual Report here.
Years after the initial resource commitments, many collaborative members continue to lead the nation with meaningful commitments to advance equity through research.