Richard Gray

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Director, Community Organizing and Engagement - National

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Richard Gray serves as director of the national program of the Community Organizing and Engagement group and currently leads its technical assistance program for community-based education reform organizations in Washington, D.C. He joined the Community Involvement Program (CIP), then at New York University. in 1998 and was instrumental in helping to shape CIP’s national presence as a technical assistance partner in an eight-city high school reform program funded by Carnegie Corporation. As a visiting fellow with the Citizens Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore in 1997, he provided strategic planning and organizational support, training, and leadership development for a broad community development agenda that included housing and education. From 1988 to 1996, he was co-executive director of the Boston-based National Coalition of Advocates for Students. He holds a J.D. from the University of California–Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and a B.A. from Brown University. He serves on the boards of California Tomorrow and the Organizing Support Center. He has published extensively on education reform, including The Good Common School: Making the Vision Work for All Children and “An Analysis of Federal School Discipline and Special Education Data Rate,” which generated over 200 news articles that resulted in school reforms.

In the News

AISR's Richard Gray presents Parent Power film at NAACP “Daisy Bates” Conference (12/1-3), AISR (11/28/11)