Rashawn Ray is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
[1] Since 2017 he has been the editor of Contexts magazine, published by the American Sociological Association, with co-editor Fabio Rojas.
[5] Furthermore, he has received the Teaching in Excellence Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland.
Several of his articles have appeared in The New York Times on a wide range of social topics including race and policing,[7] healthcare,[8] parenting styles,[9] and more.
He has been featured in many news and media reports [10] including on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, C-Span, PBS, HLN, Al Jazeera, NPR, and Fox.