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Bryan Samuels

Bryan Samuels is the executive director of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and the former commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

9/15/2020

Addressing Systemic Racism in Our Child Welfare System

Bryan Samuels, executive director of Chapin Hill, on the University of Chicago campus. Photo: Nancy Wong

Inequities have shaped our country since its founding. Centuries of discrimination have inflicted deep wounds, with disparate rates of COVID-19 infection and brutal policing being current symptoms of that troubled history.