Dominick Braswell

Dominick Braswell is from Brooklyn, New York. He is a community organizer who works predominantly in poor/working-class black & brown neighborhoods. Dominick received his B.A. in Africana Studies with a minor in American Studies from Brooklyn College at the City University of New York. His research focuses on public housing and the ways that despite a body of scholarship deeply critical of welfare reform (and the attacks on the social safety net), these scholars have overlooked the attack on public housing. Dominick's broader research interests include 20th Century Afro-American history, Black Social Movements, gender studies, race, and public policy.