Terry Keleher

Terry Keleher

Terry Keleher is the Director of the Racial Justice Leadership Initiative and the Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC)’s Chicago office.

He has over twenty years of experience in community organizing, training, curriculum design, research and program evaluation. He is currently developing a comprehensive training curriculum on racial justice leadership, organizing, advocacy and capacity building. He coordinated the national ERASE Initiative (Expose Racism and Advance School Excellence) and authored several reports on race and equity issues, including Facing the Consequences: An Examination of Racial Discrimination in U.S. Public Schools, and Justice By the People: Action Education Workshops for Community Safety and Police Accountability. He came to ARC from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a grassroots multi-issue social justice organization where he worked as a community organizer, trainer, researcher and lobbyist. He was a founding steering committee member of the National Organizers Alliance.

He has served as a trainer for social change organizations around the country, including the Southern Empowerment Project, Western States Center, and the Center for Third World Organizing, He has testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the California Senate, and was a national recipient of Rainbow/PUSH’s Push for Excellence in Education Award in 2000.

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