Fighting for Colorblindness in K-12 and Higher Education

Lance Izumi is Senior Director of the Center for Education at the Pacific Research Institute. He has written and produced numerous books, studies, and films on a wide variety of education topics. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of national, international, and academic publications.

Most recently, he is the author of the 2021 PRI book The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies, and Possibilities and the 2019 PRI book Choosing Diversity: How Charter Schools Promote Diverse Learning Models and Meet the Diverse Needs of Parents and Children.

He is a former two-term president of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the nation, and served as a member of the Board from 2004 to 2015. 

He served as a commissioner on the California Postsecondary Education Commission and as a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission’s California Advisory Committee. 

Lance received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Law, his Master of Arts in political science from the University of California at Davis, and his Bachelor of Arts in economics and history from the University of California at Los Angeles.