Warren is interested in the development of community leaders through involvement in multiracial political action as well as the outcomes of such efforts in fostering community development, social justice, and school transformation; and is committed to using the results of scholarly research to
advance democratic practice.
What the artists of the Modernist Left shared above all was the desire to
advance the
practice of non-figurative art and to promote that art as a species of realism; that is, a higher form of realism that encompassed the
democratic and progressive potential of abstract art to provide an image, as the art historian Martin James put it, of an implicit order of a future society.