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Welcome The New Director: Dr. Timothy Ready

Timothy Ready is an anthropologist who has worked extensively as a program administrator, researcher and teacher on issues related to racial and ethnic diversity and economic justice. Before becoming director of the Lewis Walker Institute in January of 2008, Dr. Ready was Director of Research at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he researched and wrote on Latino education, health, community development and immigration.

He also served as senior program officer at the National Research Council of The National Academies in Washington, DC. There, he directed three studies on the education minority and economically disadvantaged young people. Prior to that, he was Assistant Vice President for Community and Minority Programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges and was responsible for designing and directing Project 3000 by 2000, the national diversity campaign for the nation’s 126 medical schools during the 1990s. He also administered the Health Professions Partnership Initiative grants program that was jointly funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and W.K Kellogg Foundations. In addition, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology of the Catholic University of America. Welcome Dr. Timothy Ready!