Philip Tegeler

Executive Director,
Poverty & Race Research Action Council

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Philip Tegeler is the Executive Director of Poverty & Race Research Action Council, a civil rights policy organization based in Washington, DC.  PRRAC’s mission is to promote research-based advocacy on structural inequality issues, with a specific focus on the causes and consequences of housing and school segregation.  Mr. Tegeler has written extensively on the application of civil rights law to federal housing and education policy, including most recently, “Coordinated Action on School and Housing Integration: The Role of State Government,” University of Richmond Law Review (2019) (co-author), and “Disrupting the reciprocal relationship between housing and school segregation,” in A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality (Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2018) (co-author). PRRAC manages the technical assistance group “Mobility Works,” a collaborative project with experienced housing mobility practitioners from Baltimore, Chicago and Dallas. PRRAC also provides leadership and staff support for the National Coalition on School Diversity.  Before coming to PRRAC, Mr. Tegeler worked as a staff attorney and legal director with the Connecticut ACLU, and served on the clinical faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School.