After publishing Dog Whistle Politics (2014), Ian co-chaired the AFL-CIO’s Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice, along with Dorian Warren and Ana Avendaño, and then co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project, along with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Heather McGhee. The Race-Class Narrative Project conducted interviews and ran a series of focus groups and polls in 2017 and 2018.