In partnership with Community REsource Hub for Safety & Accountability (the Hub) and Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), the Avalan Institute helped lead the research and production of a report that dives into the proliferation of surveillance technology and its use by law enforcement. This report further highlights the negative impact such technology has on marginalizes communities, as well as who benefits financially from such technology. The report also provides examples of victories and lessons learned for the purposes of advocacy.

While serving as Criminal Justice Director, and the NAACP, Dr. Kasravi worked with partners to help lead the fight against stop and frisk abuses by law enforcement in New York City. She authored a report which opented a renewed dialogue about racial profiling in America. The report includes a call to action for NAACP members and other advocates to work towards ending this ineffective and abusive policing practice across the country. It also includes a state by state analysis of racial profiling laws, a model anti-racial profiling bill, smaple End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA) support letters to Congress, principles for effective civilian review boards, and police misconduc reporting forms.

This issue has a special focus on topics including in-depth and innovative approaches to help advance the study of Black identities, ethnicities and diasporas, and in turn, highlights how these perspectives inform representative governance and public policy.

At the start of her career, while serving as the researcher and associate for the newly created Domestic Human Rights Program of Amnesty International USA, Dr. Kasravi helped organize a series of national hearings on racial profiling, to include profiling trends pre and post 9/11. The hearings and connected research led to the production of this report, which she co-authored.