Phillip Atiba Goff (Ph.D., Social Psychology, Stanford University; A.B., Afro-American Studies, Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is co-founder and Executive Director of Research for the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity (CPLE, http://www.policingequity.org). Dr. Goff has also served as an expert witness on issues of racial discrimination in several prominent national litigations. He is an expert in contemporary forms of racial bias and discrimination as well as the intersections of race and gender. Dr. Goff’s research explores ways in which racial prejudice may not be a necessary precondition for racial discrimination. That is, Dr. Goff studies situations where racial inequality occurs even absent racist people. As co-founder and Executive Director of the CPLE, Dr. Goff has been given unprecedented access to law enforcement officers and departmental records. By encouraging social scientists to take advantage of the CPLE’s relationships, and through his own research on racial bias in police stops and use of force, Dr. Goff hopes to advance scientific understanding of racial inequality while encouraging a national conversation on equity in policing. Dr. Goff’s work has been acknowledged by NIH, SPSSI, NSF, The Mellon Foundation, The Woodrow Wilson Institute, The Russell Sage Foundation, The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Dr. Goff was recognized with APA Division 48 (Peace Psychology) and Division 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) Early Career Awards and spent the 2008 – 2009 academic year as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Most recently, Dr. Goff was selected as a William T. Grant Scholar for the period of 2010 – 2015.

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