Associate Professor's New Project Receives Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Seattle University was awarded a $396,805 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The grant will provide support for From Transformative Practice to Transformative Movements, a project led by Dr. Rachel E. Luft, associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, which will convene social movement leaders to strategize how to bring transformative practice to scale in movement training, strategy development and mobilization for racial and gender justice, and to inform philanthropic practice. Collaborating on the project with Luft will be Malkia Devich-Cyril, an activist, writer and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief. This is Luft’s third award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for a total of $685,364 of support since 2019.