Dear RSF:

Please join us at 11:00 on Wednesday, October 6th for Guest Speaker Earl Lewis’ presentation “Community-Based Racial Reparations: Toward a Replicable and Scalable Model?”

Lewis is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions and the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy. He is a social historian, award-winning author and educational leader at the University of Michigan, where he has worked since 1989, barring a stint at Emory (2004-2012) and as leader of the Andrew G. Mellon Foundation, where he is president emeritus (2013-18). He has authored or edited nine books, and serves as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans along with Robin D.G. Kelley.

Lewis received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota in 1984. He was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents of his undergraduate alma mater, Concordia College-Moorhead. Lewis is vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.