The African American Alumni Association, in partnership with Case Western Reserve's Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and the African American and African studies minor, invites you to join us for Profiles of Inclusive Excellence. This series features in-depth conversations with faculty and staff from across campus — highlighting their work and research.

In this most recent installment, Heather Burton, PhD, senior director for faculty and institutional diversity, will conduct an in-depth interview with Cassi Pittman Claytor, Ph.D, Climo Junior Professor and acting co-director of the African & African American studies minor. Teaching in the department of Sociology, Dr. Pittman Claytor's work focuses on how racial minorities, particularly African Americans, manage contemporary forms of racism with the goal of uncovering how contemporary processes of social exclusion and inequality function to disadvantage racial minorities.

As a scholar of race and racial inequality, her research focuses on the attitudes, experiences and consumption preferences of the Black middle class.

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