{"id":2631,"date":"2026-07-15T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/?page_id=2631"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:17:07","slug":"dr-raphe-sonenshein-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/dr-raphe-sonenshein-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Raphe Sonenshein, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr. Raphe Sonenshein is the Executive Director of the Haynes Foundation. Previously, he served as the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute\nfor Public Affairs at Cal State LA. He received his B.A. in public policy from Princeton and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRaphe is a nationally recognized expert on racial and ethnic politics, on\nCalifornia and Los Angeles, and on charter reform. His book Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton, 1993) won the American Political Science Association\u2019s 1994 Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best political science book of the year on racial and cultural pluralism. He served as Executive Director of the Los Angeles (Appointed) Charter\nReform Commission that led to the city\u2019s first comprehensive charter reform in 75 years, described in his book The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles (Princeton, 2004). \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRaphe has since guided successful charter reform commissions in half a dozen cities. His third book is Los Angeles: Structure of a City Government (2006, League of Women Voters, LA). All three books received significant grant support from the Haynes Foundation. Dr. Sonenshein received a Wang Family Excellence Award as one of the four most outstanding Cal State faculty members. He was a co-recipient of the Haynes Foundation Research Impact Award and received the Harry Scoville Award from\nthe American Society for Public Administration SoCal Division. Dr. Sonenshein was the fall 2008 Fulbright Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Paris VIII. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn 2022-3, he joined a multi-university collaborative of six scholars supported by philanthropy in the Los Angeles Governance Reform Project,\nto make recommendations for better governance at LA City Hall.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Team Strengthening Democracy Where It Matters Most: Locally Dr. Raphe Sonenshein Executive Director Dr. Raphe Sonenshein is the Executive Director of the Haynes Foundation. Previously, he served as the executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA. He received his B.A. in public policy from Princeton and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2631\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serverstagingsite.com\/haynesfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}