Equality Action Center

What We Do

The Equality Action Center works to remedy inequality based on class, race and gender. Our focus is pragmatic: we link rigorous research with practical steps to produce change within a 2-5 year time frame. Our current focus is on data-driven methods for building cross-class multiracial coalitions to defend democracy and build support for progressive policies on climate, culture-wars issues and economic inequality.

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We have two new reports co-written by Joan C. Williams and Jared Abbott of the Center for Working-Class Politics.

To Build Progressive Coalitions, You Need to Bridge the Class Divide is a roadmap for building cross-class coalitions to reduce economic inequality, defend  democracy and make progress on immigration, care economy policies, LGBTQIA+ rights, gun policy, public safety, climate change and abortion rights.

The Working-Class Winometer: Dialing Up to Victory disaggregates the electoral effects of policies and rhetoric that resonate with working-class values (forthcoming in August).

Other tools:

Class Bubble Quiz Are you elite? Take this simple 10-question quiz to find out.

Bridging the Diploma Divide provides crucial background for reporters who need deep research boiled down into roadmaps that take under 6 minutes to read—and for citizens and activists seeing to find the path forward from far-right populism.

Center Director Joan C. Williams is a serial entrepreneur. Here’s how to contact those who capably carry on work she initiated:

For evidence-based tools to interrupt racial and gender bias in organizations—”Bias Interrupters”—contact NYU’s Melzer Center on Diversity, Inclusion and    Belonging.

For help in protecting the rights of mothers and other caregivers at work, contact UC Law’s WorkLife Law.

For evidence-based tools around leadership training, professional development, and inclusion, contact our partners at SpeechSkills Foundation.