Andrew Grant-Thomas is Deputy Director of the Kirwan Institute. Dr. Grant-Thomas oversees the Institute’s U.S. programming and internal operations. He came to Kirwan in 2006 from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, where he was a senior research associate. At the Civil Rights Project he directed the Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America’s Present and Future, and managed a range of policw racial minorities, an exploration of the racial justice dimensions of transportation policy, and an internal evaluation of a community support advocacy initiative. He received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University, his M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.