"Walking Partners" are those alumni and friends who join us in our effort to fulfill the mission of the Center for African American Studies (CAAS) Princeton University. We have borrowed the phrase from our colleague, Cornel West. Dr. West refers to his intellectual resources – those persons who inform how he thinks about and sees the world – as his "walking partners". They travel with him wherever he goes.

We like to think of our "Walking Partners" as those persons who have decided to travel with the Center on its remarkable journey to deepen our students' and fellow citizens' understanding of the histories of African Americans and the complexities of race here and around the globe. To read more, including information on how to being one of our "Walking Partners," click here.

The Center for African American Studies has launched its inaugural summer internship program to further research in race and public policy, allowing four Princeton students to apply their knowledge of African American studies to work with The Young People's Project in Jackson, Mississippi, the Making Waves Education Program in Richmond, California, and and the International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ to confront issues of disparity in urban education. The new internship program is managed by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. To find out more, click here.

The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Thought Leadership Project is a year-long seminar/workshop for faculty and staff meant to increase the number of women and minority scholars as “thought leaders” in the nation’s most visible public forums. This four-part workshop will take place on the following dates:

December 11-12
February 3
March 16
May 11

This event is closed to the public, and applications are no longer being accepted.