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The ACLU of Delaware's annual Kandler Award honors members of the community who represent the highest commitment to ensuring the civil rights and liberties of all Delawareans.
On October 20, UD Associate Professor Yasser Payne, who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice and Africana Studies, was one of two honorees.
Watch the event
Dr. Payne’s street ethnographic research program examines notions of
resilience, structural violence and gun violence with street-identified
Black Americans by drawing on an unconventional methodological framework
titled: Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR)—the process
of doing research and activism with street identified populations.
Presently, he leads two Street PAR projects on gun violence in the City
of Wilmington funded by Christiana Care Hospital; and he leads a
national Street PAR project on gun violence in the following five
cities: Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, Michigan; News Orleans,
Louisiana; and Brooklyn, New York City.
Dr. Payne’s first Street PAR project in Wilmington, Delaware, was The
People’s Report: The Link between Structural Violence and Crime in
Wilmington, Delaware. This study trained fifteen people (20-48) formerly
involved with the criminal justice system to empirically document the
relationship between economic well-being and gun violence in the
Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington. Learn more about the project at The People's Report.
