The mission of the Black Researchers Collective is to train and equip communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.

Our Core Beliefs and Values

We believe in giving people control of their own narratives

  • We believe in leveraging our history and empirical experience to inform and address societal challenges

  • We believe in building collective power with the tools we’ve learned along our journeys

  • We believe in community-directed research

  • We believe in owning data and research that directly impact our communities so that we might be more informed about how to effectively inform and influence policy

We believe

We believe

Staff

  • Glenance Green

    Co-Founder & Executive Director

  • Shari Runner

    Co-Founder & Director

  • Joshua Jackson

    Documentary Filmmaker

  • Tanisha Woodson, PhD

    Research Project Manager

  • Temitope Bello

    Quantitative Research Specialist

Learn More

Board of Directors

  • Glenance Green

    CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Shari Runner

    CO-FOUNDER

  • Melissa Brown-Sims

    FOUNDING MEMBER

  • Tiffany McDowell, PhD

    FOUNDING MEMBER

  • Helen Muhisani

    FOUNDING MEMBER

  • Christerralyn Brown, PhD

    MEMBER

Learn More