Today, Pay Our Interns, is releasing my new report , ‘The Color of Congress: Racial Representation Among Interns in the U.S. House of Representatives’. The report finds a deep gap between the diversity of the nation and who our elected officials choose to hire and train for coveted paid internships.

Democratic leaders in the Senate adopt new rules for a diverse workplace outlined in Senate Staff Diversity Report. 

The Department of Sociology at Columbia University awarded James R. Jones with  the Robert K. Merton Award for Best Dissertation. His dissertation "Black Capitol: Race in the Halls of Power" is the first sociological study of racial inequality in the United States congressional workplace. 

I wrote for NewsWorks about the alternative vision the awarding film Moonlight presents of the Black Community. 

In 1978, Glenn famously labeled Congress the “Last Plantation,” to highlight how the institution was exempt from federal workplace laws, making the legislature one of the last places where racial discrimination was allowable. The senator spent much of his twenty-year career on Capitol Hill working to end this congressional double standard that exempted lawmakers from the laws they passed.  

I am also happy to announce that I will be joining Rutgers University-Newark next year as a post-doctoral associate and then as an assistant professor.

Widespread and national coverage of the Senate Diversity Report and including an exclusive from the Washington Post 

James Jones recently received the Best Graduate Student Paper award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Daniel Bell award for Public Sociology from Columbia University 

I've authored a new policy paper on Senate staff diversity for the Joint Center.