Iván Arenas
Senior Associate Director, Community Partnerships Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
About
Iván Arenas is a Mexican-American anthropologist, architect, artist, activist, and parent. His research focuses on how social movements use creative art practices to establish solidarities beyond the state. Dr. Arenas has curated three exhibits at the Social Justice Initiative's Pop Up Just Art Gallery Space and works with activist collectives in the city looking to mitigate and end the harms of police violence. Dr. Arenas is the Senior Associate Director for Community Partnerships at UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP). At IRRPP, he works to connect faculty, students, and the community through research and programming on race, ethnicity, and public policy that enable not just greater understanding of racial inequalities, but mobilizes towards collective action. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2011 from the University of California, Berkeley.