Contact Us
General Inquiries:
202-885-2892
arpc@american.edu
Media Inquiries:
AU Communications
aumedia@american.edu
202-885-5950
Center Leadership
Media Inquiries
Please contact AU Communications:
aumedia@american.edu
202-885-5950
Staff
Strategic Communications Lead
Esperonto Bean, MA
Esperonto Bean recently received his master’s degree in Strategic Communications from our School of Communication. He will serve as the ARPC’s Communications Lead for the 2025-2026 academic year, working with Center leadership and Center affiliates on building relationships with funders and aligning communications strategies with fundraising needs in order to stimulate philanthropic support. He will also support the Center leadership’s bridge-building initiatives between the ARPC and our on- and off-campus partners. Esperonto is also an important teaching artist in AU’s Dance Department, having pioneered the university’s urban dance programming.
Assistant to the Exec. Director
Nalani Love-Harris
Nalani Love-Harris is a community, care, and convening strategist for antiracist research events and programming. She uses her skills and experience to advance organizations’ research mission by bridging groundbreaking research initiatives and outcomes with actionable and translatable programming that showcases the research to the public and incentivizes support from diverse stakeholders. When she is not supporting the research events and programming of antiracist organizations, Nalani works on her social media project and personal research. Her social media project ‘GrowwithNalani’ serves as a site where she engages her journey as a Black transwoman through the lens of racial, gender, and labor commentary, as well as explores how systems and cultures contribute to pop culture issues and events through a Black trans femme lens.
Interim Year Advisory Board
This year’s advisory board is made up of eight ARPC affiliates and one community partner who are all deeply committed to our ideals and each element of our mission. These antiracist educators, scholars, and/or policy experts join the Interim Director in shaping the future of the Center with the challenges of today’s world and the strengths of the ARPC community in mind.
Malini Ranganathan
Associate Professor
SIS | Environment, Development & Health
