Where anthropologists intersect The Public

Part of the July 16, 2021 email invitation for financial contribution to the AAA [American Anthropological Association] engagement with the General Public, government, business, public safety, educators, news media, and so on. These initiatives and focal points of the effort to extend the professional preoccupations into public spaces and discussions is heartening, but not very noticeable to the average person overall.

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One of AAA's strengths is our ability to amplify the voices of our members, advance basic understandings of anthropology with the larger public, and call attention to the important contributions our work makes to more fair and effective policy. With your philanthropic support, we can: Create Race 2.0, a small footprint version of AAA's highly successful RACE: Are We So Different? public initiative featuring updated programming and an upgraded version of the exhibition's award-winning website, for which we have recently received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Travel World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration to public libraries and other host institutions. Continue our advocacy efforts on important policy issues from human rights and climate change to health equity and cultural heritage protection through our alliances with the Consortium of Social Science Associations, the National Humanities Alliance, and the Cultural Heritage Alliance.

Your support of the Public Awareness, Outreach and Engagement Initiatives ensures that anthropology and public-facing initiatives continue to thrive.