Rashawn Ray: It Could Have Been Me by The Story Collider published on 2018-07-04T18:17:17Z Rashawn Ray’s trajectory as a sociologist is forever changed by the murder of Philando Castile. Rashawn Ray is Associate Professor of Sociology, the Edward McK. Johnson, Jr. Endowed Faculty Fellow, and Co-Director of the Critical Race Initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Ray’s research addresses the mechanisms that manufacture and maintain racial and social inequality. His work also speaks to ways that inequality may be attenuated through racial uplift activism and social policy. Ray has published over 40 books, articles, book chapters, and op-eds. Currently, Ray is co-investigator of a study examining implicit bias, body-worn cameras, and police-citizen interactions with 1800 police officers with the Prince George’s County Police Department. This story originally aired on The Story Collider's podcast on August 18, 2017, in an episode titled "Boiling Point." Find the transcript and other information here: https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2017/8/17/boiling-point-stories-about-reaching-points-of-crisis Genre Storytelling