Dominique Apollon, Ph.D., Research Director,
is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A., American Government,
1996), and received his doctorate in political science from Stanford
University in 2003. His dissertation, “Relieving the Toxic Burden?:
Race, Hazardous Wastes, and the Politics of the Environmental Justice
Movement” examined the distribution of toxic wastes in the state of
California from 1989-1999, as well as the corresponding grassroots political
activity and participation. Dom has taught undergraduate seminars
on the politics of race/ethnicity at Stanford University and Santa Clara
University, and served as an assistant professor in the Department of
Political Science at California State University, Bakersfield, where
he taught courses on U.S. Constitutional Law, Introductory American
Politics, Environmental Politics, Congress, and the Presidency from
2004-2007.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland,
Dom served as program coordinator for the 1999 Stanford University
Conference on Race, “African Americans: Research and Policy Perspectives
at the Turn of the Century,” and has presented research at conferences
and institutions of higher learning in Albuquerque, NM, Chicago, IL,
Des Moines, IA, New Haven, CT, Pomona, CA, and Riverside, CA among other
U.S. cities. He has participated in public forums and discussions
on state elections, civil rights, civil liberties, environmental degradation
and policy, and youth political mobilization. An alumnus of the
American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
(1995), he was also an award-winning opinion page columnist at The
Cavalier Daily newspaper in Charlottesville, VA.
Dom currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the San Quentin Prison-based non-profit organization
California Reentry Program, and has volunteered for other Bay Area
non-profits such as GRID Alternatives, Habitat for Humanity - San
Francisco, Rebuilding Together (Midpeninsula),
and StreetLaw for Youth (Stanford Law School chapter).
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