Professor Laurie Jo Reynolds (Art) named a IRRPP Faculty Fellow

Professor Laurie Jo Reynolds (Art) has been named a 2022-2023 IRRPP Faculty Fellow. IRRPP provides funding to UIC faculty members who conduct engaged and policy-relevant research on race and ethnicity. Faculty Fellows are awarded course releases or a grant that covers research costs.

Professor Reynolds seeks to better understand the acute crisis caused by public conviction registries and conviction-based housing banishment laws in Illinois, as these discredited policies permanently exclude people, very disproportionately Black men, from most housing for life, and they force hundreds of Chicagoans into homelessness, unemployment, family separation, transience, and reincarceration.