More of Will Stancil, the Candidate's, MAD SKILLS
Attorney and expert in civil rights law, metropolitan planning, K-12 education policy, and subsidized housing policy, Will's life's work has been at the intersection of policy, advocacy, politics, and law. Noteworthy experiences include:
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Serving as a key advisor in the first major statewide K-12 school desegregation case in the US in two decades (Cruz-Guzman v. State of Minnesota)
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Serving as an expert in two Department of Housing and Urban Development fair housing complaints against the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the Met Council, and the State of Minnesota, targeting concentration of subsidized housing
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Offering analysis of civil rights law and problems, political representation, and the politics of far-right extremism in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly, as well as on NPR, NBC news, and in many local Minnesota outlets
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Working with White House officials and twenty Metropolitan Planning Organizations from the nation’s 25 largest cities to develop strategies to make regional governance stronger and more accountable
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Analyzing teacher compensation statewide in collaboration with Education Minnesota, and independently developing policy proposals to eliminate early-career pay gaps and other barriers to teacher recruitment
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Working closely with elected officials, city managers, and mayors in highly diverse suburbs to collect data and develop solutions for growing poverty concentration within their municipalities
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Designing and authoring comprehensive nationwide analysis of neighborhood economic growth and decline
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Writing successful amicus briefs to the Minnesota Supreme Court, representing some of the state’s top civil rights lawyers, urging the state’s fundamental constitutional right to an education be applied to forbid school segregation
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Designing and authoring a study of Twin Cities regional subsidized housing construction costs
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Collaborating with the North New Jersey MPO to develop policy proposals stabilizing rapidly resegregating New York suburbs
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Conducting studies of K-12 school performance and integration
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Uncovering major misuse of government funding in the construction of extreme high-cost subsidized housing, resulting in national news coverage
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Working with national civil rights scholars to analyze racial disciplinary gaps in K-12 education
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Partnering with Illinois Association of Realtors to develop policy proposals responding to growing poverty and gentrification fears in the Chicago region
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Coordinating a successful intervention by civil rights scholars to oppose state Department of Education efforts to strengthen Minnesota statewide school integration rule
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Serving as member of the Minnesota Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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Serving as member of Lowry Hill Neighborhood Association
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Serving as advisor in ongoing litigation against the State of Minnesota and Metropolitan Council for civil rights and fair housing violations (Stairstep Foundation v. State of Minnesota)
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Collecting and studying nationwide data on racial patterns in police shootings
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Developing alternative formulas for Met Council “housing need” allocations, to better credit high-performing municipalities, and developing proposals to better reward housing performance by municipalities with increased transit funding
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Organizing the Summit for Civil Rights, an ongoing project bringing local and federal elected leaders, attorneys and scholars, and labor leaders together to develop legislative and advocacy agendas to promote stable regions and protect Senator Walter Mondale’s original vision of the Fair Housing Act
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Collaborating with the nation’s top civil rights experts to develop a range of federal proposals to improve K-12 school integration
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Creating and publishing strategies for coordinating magnet school development with housing planning
