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Phillip Atiba Goff
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Goff in 2020
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| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005 |
| Known for | Work on race and policing in the United States
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| Fields | Social psychology |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University UCLA John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University |
| Thesis | The space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist. He is known for studying how race and policing work together in the United States. In 2016, he became a special professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. This was the college's first ever endowed professorship. In 2020, he joined Yale University as a professor. He teaches African-American Studies and Psychology there.
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Early Life and Education
Goff grew up in the city of Philadelphia. He went to Harvard University and earned a degree in Afro-American studies in 1999. Later, he studied at Stanford University. He received his master's degree in Social Psychology in 2001. In 2005, he earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford.
Career and Research
Dr. Goff has worked at several universities. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. He also taught social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2004 to 2005, he taught at Pennsylvania State University.
Center for Policing Equity
Goff is a co-founder and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity (CPE). This group does research to help make policing fair for everyone. They want to make sure police are accountable and do not show racial bias.
CPE hosts a big project called the National Justice Database. This project collects information about police actions across the country. It looks at things like police stops and how force is used. The way Goff helped set up this data collection is seen as a good example for police departments everywhere. The Center for Policing Equity moved from UCLA to John Jay College in 2016. In 2020, it moved again to Yale University.
National Initiatives
In 2014, Goff helped start the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. He also spoke to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. He shared his ideas on how to improve policing.
Personal Life
In 1999, Goff helped start a hip hop music group in Oakland, California. When he was a musician in this group, he was known by the names "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP.
