Tarso Luís Ramos

Tarso Luís Ramos assumed the role of executive director of Political Research Associates (PRA) in June 2009 after serving as research director for three years. As research director, he focused on anti-immigrant groups and the rise of "colorblind" ideology. He also launched three new research projects—on civil liberties, right-wing attacks on mainline churches, and Islamophobia and antisemitism on college campuses—and oversaw the transfer of Right Web, a site tracking those promoting a militarist foreign policy, from a nonprofit that was closing its doors. Before joining PRA, he served as founding director of Western States Center’s racial justice program, which resists racist public policy initiatives and supports the base-building work of progressive people of color-led organizations. As director of the Wise Use Public Exposure Project in the mid-’90s, he tracked the Right’s anti-union and anti-environmental campaigns.