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Wrong Color, Wrong Clothes: Accounts of Ethnic Profiling in France & United States
Rachel Neild

Senior Advisor, Equality & Citizenship
Open Society Justice Initiative

Rachel Neild is senior advisor on ethnic profiling and police reform with the Equality and Citizenship Program of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, Neild previously worked with the Washington Office on Latin America, the Andean Commission of Jurists, Peru, and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, Costa Rica.

Neild has also done consultancies on human rights and policing for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, USAID, and Rights and Democracy, among others.

Rene Levy

René Lévy is  research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) and director of the European network Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Normativités (GERN). He is also scientific coordinator of the FP6 Coordination Action  Assessing Deviance, Crime and Prevention in Europe and has been a consortium member of the EU technical assistance project to Brazil Institutional Support to the state Secretariat on Human Rights (2003-2008).

He has been editor and is currently the director of the journal Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/Crime, History & Societies. His research interests include ethnic discrimination in policing, electronic monitoring, and history of the French police.

Reginald T. Shuford

Reginald T. Shuford is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF), where he leads the racial profiling litigation efforts of the national office. While at the ACLUF, Shuford has been involved in constitutional and impact litigation in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties focusing on issues of race and poverty. In addition, he consults with state ACLU affiliates about racial profiling litigation.

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