Founded in 2020, the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences is a local 501(c)3 here in Miami, Florida whose work responds to the unique positionality of the city as a hub for international thought with global calls to bring to the center of academic scholarship perspectives and understandings of the Global Majority—of communities of Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) around the world.

Our work is to consistently promote and remind ourselves and our communities of the rich, vivid, and ongoing knowledge that has been produced and is being produced by the Global Majority in the social sciences and neighboring fields from economics, political science, and sociology to philosophy, history, and interdisciplinary studies. Because from our perspectives, a critical step towards treating each other and each other’s communities with greater dignity and humanity in all aspects of life — from employment practices and legal jurisprudence to health, education, housing, finance, and lending policies — is to acknowledge each other and each other’s communities as pillars of knowledge about ourselves and the world around us.