Phillip Atiba Goff is an African-American psychologist and rapper known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was appointed the Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016. He is also the co-founder and president of the research center/think tank Center for Policing Equity, which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States. In 2016, a decade after it was founded, the Center relocated to John Jay. He was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community