Appendix B

Biographical Information for Workshop Presenters and Discussants

Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson is a multidisciplinary, community-partnered health equity researcher and assistant professor in the departments of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Adkins-Jackson’s research investigates the role of structural racism on healthy aging for historically marginalized populations, such as Black and Pacific Islander communities. Her primary project examines the role of life-course adverse community-level policing exposure on psychological well-being, cognitive function, and biological aging for Black and Latinx/a/o older adults. Her secondary project tests the effectiveness of an antiracist, multilevel, preintervention restorative program to increase community health and institutional trustworthiness through multisector community-engaged partnerships. Adkins-Jackson is a board member of the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues. She earned a Ph.D. in psychometrics at Morgan State University.

Amy Kate Bailey is associate professor of sociology and fellow of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research interrogates historical racial violence, with a particular focus on the people who were victimized and the contemporary consequences of racial terror. To further this work, she has created multiple datasets using archival data. Bailey’s scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and appeared in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Sciences, Population Research and Policy Review, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Her book Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence, coauthored with Stewart E. Tolnay, received the 2015 IPUMS Research Award. Bailey previously held a faculty appointment at Utah State University, and was an NIH postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton’s Office of Population Research. She earned her B.A. in women’s studies and health at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Washington.

Courtney Boen is assistant professor and Axilrod faculty fellow in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a research associate in the Penn Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center; a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics; and an affiliate in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration. Boen’s research combines critical and relational theories of race and racism, insights from the life-course perspective, and a variety of social demographic techniques to document and interrogate the patterns and determinants of population health inequities. Her current research focuses on the structural and institutional factors producing racialized inequities in health and mortality, including projects on the roles of immigration policy and surveillance, as well as policing and carceral punishment, in generating and maintaining racialized health inequities. Boen’s work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, among others. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is James B. Duke distinguished professor of sociology at Duke University. He works in the field of racial/ethnic stratification and has written on racial theory, race and methodology, race in the academy, and the future of racial stratification in the United States. Bonilla-Silva is best known for his book Racism without Racists, in which he showed that the language and tropes used to explain away the significance of race amount to a new ideology that he labels colorblind racism. He served as president of the American Sociological Association and the Southern Sociological Society in 2018, and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious ASA W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2021. Bonilla-Silva received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, but developed his sociological imagination in The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, where he received a B.A.

Jamein P. Cunningham is assistant professor in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. He held previous positions as assistant

professor in the economics departments at the University of Memphis and Portland State University, where he taught urban economics, econometrics, labor economics, and Race & Ethnicity in the Economy. Cunningham is an applied microeconometrician with a research interest in demography, crime, and poverty. His research agenda currently consists of four broad, overarching themes focusing on legal aid and access to social justice, as well as how laws, regulations, and federal interventions influence individuals’ economic outcomes from marginalized communities. He was a recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute in Child Health and Development Fellowship. Cunningham holds professional memberships in the American Economic Association; the American Law and Economics Association; the Economic History Association; the Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice Network; and the National Economic Association. He earned a B.A. from Michigan State University, an M.S. from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, all in economics.

Frank Edwards is a sociologist broadly interested in social control, the welfare state, racism, and applied statistics. He is assistant professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University-Newark. Edwards’ work explores the causes and consequences of the social distribution of state violence. His research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Public Health, and other outlets. His research has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and PBS News Hour, among others. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington.

René D. Flores is Neubauer Family assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. His research interests are in the fields of international migration, race and ethnicity, and social stratification, exploring the emergence of social boundaries around immigrants and racial minorities across the world, as well as how these boundaries contribute to the reproduction of ethnic-based social inequality. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Social Problems, among others. Flores serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology. He is a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive Committee of the Population Association of America. He received his Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Princeton University in 2014. He was the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholar in health policy research at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Marjory Givens is associate director of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, codirector of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, and assistant professor of population health sciences. For nearly two decades, Givens has worked to make health and equity routine considerations in shaping the places where people live, learn, work, and play. She has conducted public health research in laboratory and community-based settings, ranging from investigations using biomedical models to health impact assessments and evaluation of community interventions. Givens received a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S.P.H. in environmental/occupational health and epidemiology from Emory University. She completed postdoctoral training as a health disparities research scholar and was a population health service fellow, both while at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Evelynn M. Hammonds is Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science, professor of African and African American studies, chair of the Department of the History of Science, and professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she has been on the faculty for more than 20 years. Her research focuses on the history of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race and gender in the United States. She also works on projects to improve the representation of women of color in STEM fields. Hammonds is currently vice president–elect of the History of Science Society. She is a member of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and of the Roundtable on Black Men and Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; and co-chair of the Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech report, all for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and holds honorary degrees from Spelman and Bates Colleges. Hammonds holds undergraduate degrees in physics from Spelman College and electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and she earned the S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.

Rachel Hardeman is a tenured associate professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Blue Cross endowed professor in health and racial equity, founding director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, and member of the advisory committee to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2021. A reproductive health equity researcher, Hardeman applies the tools of population health science and health ser-

vices research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. She leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work, which aims to build the empirical evidence of racism’s impact on health, particularly for Black birthing people and their babies. Her work also examines the potential mental health impacts for Black birthing people when living in a community that has experienced the killing of an unarmed Black person by police. Published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health, Hardeman’s research has elicited important conversations on the topics of culturally centered care, police brutality, and structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities. Her overarching goal is to contribute to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in a tangible way; identifies opportunities for intervention; and dismantles the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist. Hardeman received her Ph.D. in health services research and policy from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Margaret Hicken is a tenured research associate professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where she leads several projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to examine the role of structural racism in population health inequities. Specifically, Hicken examines the interactive roles of historical and contemporary racial residential segregation, and social and toxicant exposures on contemporary population health inequities. Furthermore, she links these exposures to health through potential biological mechanisms, including DNA methylation and other biomarkers, and examines the interactive role of social and genetic risk on population health. Hicken is trained as a social demographer and social epidemiologist, with further training in statistical and population genetics through a 5-year career development award from the National Institutes of Health. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Michelle Johnson-Jennings is professor and director of the Division of Environmentally Based Health & Land-based Healing at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. She holds a joint appointment at the University of Colorado School of Public Health. Johnson-Jennings was associate professor in community health and epidemiology in medicine and associate professor in Indigenous studies, as well as scientific director of the National Indigenous HIV/AIDS Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include Indigenous health and psychology, epidemiology, addiction medicine, and psychological and behavioral aspects of health care. Her therapeutic expertise lies in working with Indigenous communities and decolonizing healing while rewriting narratives of trauma through land--

based healing. Johnson-Jennings has partnered with many international and national Indigenous nations, organizations, and communities to prevent substance abuse, food addiction, and obesity. She received her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2010.

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee is professor of sociology at Duke University and visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested broadly in the social determinants and consequences of population health and health disparities in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of structural racism in racial/ethnic health disparities. Lee’s work examines the impact of family member incarceration on the health of family members, the association between racialized chronic stress and mental/physical health, the trends in racial/ethnic health disparities, and the role of histories of racial violence in racial/ethnic health disparities. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her articles span a range of topics and disciplines, including demography, medicine, political science, public health, social work, and sociology. Lee serves on the board of the Population Association of America and the research advisory board for the Vera Institute for Justice. She is also a member of the General Social Survey Board of Overseers and a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Population. Lee has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stephanie Li is Lynne Cooper Harvey distinguished professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first monograph, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women, analyzes literary examples in which African American women decide to remain within or enter into conditions of bondage. Her next book, Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama, describes a new mode of racial discourse for the 21st century, in what Toni Morrison calls “race-specific, race-free language.” Her interest in Obama’s writings led her to guest coedit, with Professor Gordon Hutner, the fall 2012 special issue of American Literary History, entitled “Writing the Presidency.” Her third monograph, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects, considers how postwar African American authors represent Whiteness. Her most recent book, Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the TwentyFirst Century, is dedicated to charting the contours of Pan–African American literature. She has also written two short biographies of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, and is currently at work on a monograph entitled Ugly White People. She earned a Ph.D. in English language and literature from Cornell University.

Trevon D. Logan is Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees distinguished professor of economics and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University. He is a research associate in the Development of the American Economy Program and the director of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. A former president of the National Economic Association and member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of the Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, Logan is currently codirector of the American Economic Association’s Mentoring Program and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. His current research focuses on racial inequality and economic history. Logan was named by Fortune Magazine as “One of the 19 Black Economists You Should Know and Celebrate” in 2020. He is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s planning committee Strengthening the Evidence Base to Improve Economic and Social Mobility in the United States, and a member of the Committee on Population. Logan received a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, master’s degrees in demography and economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Berkeley.

Jennifer J. Manly is professor of neuropsychology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute at Columbia University. Her research on cultural, medical, and genetic predictors of cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease among African Americans and Hispanics has been funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association. Manly has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, as well as eight chapters in edited books. She aims to improve the diagnostic accuracy of neuropsychological tests in detecting cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease among African American and Hispanic elders. Her recent work focuses on the specificity of cognitive tasks in detecting subtle cognitive decline among illiterate and low-literacy older adults, with important implications for determining the complex influence of reading and writing skills on brain function. Manly is a current member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Population. She has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, San Diego. After a clinical internship at Brown University, Manly completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.

Ziad Obermeyer is associate professor and Blue Cross of California distinguished professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducts research and teaches at the intersection of machine learning and health. He is cofounder of Nightingale Open Science, a nonprofit that

makes massive new medical imaging datasets available for research, as well as Dandelion, a platform for artificial intelligence innovation in health. Obermeyer is a Chan Zuckerberg biohub investigator and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was named an Emerging Leader by the National Academy of Medicine. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He continues to practice emergency medicine in underserved communities. Obermeyer’s papers appear in a wide range of journals, including Science, Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, and have won awards from professional societies in medicine and economics. His work on algorithmic bias is frequently cited in the public debate about artificial intelligence, and in federal and state regulatory guidance and investigations. Obermeyer holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Seth Sanders is Ronald Ehrenberg professor of economics at Cornell University. Prior to joining the faculty at Cornell, he was professor of economics and public policy at Duke University and director of the Duke Population Research Institute. His scholarly work has covered a range of topics in labor economics and economic demography, including aging and cognition, race and gender gaps in earnings among the highly educated, the effects of extreme economic changes on workers and families, the performance of gay and lesbian families in the economy, and the economic consequences of teenage childbearing. Sanders was research director of the first Census research data center at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked with restricted-use Census data throughout his career, including current work on the Core Longitudinal Infrastructure Population Project, which is developing methods to link historical Census data to contemporary Census data and administrative records. Sanders holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Desi Small-Rodriguez is assistant professor of sociology and American Indian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has partnered with Indigenous communities in the United States and internationally as a researcher and data advocate for more than 10 years. Small-Rodriguez directs the Data Warriors Lab, an Indigenous social science laboratory. Her research examines the intersection of race, indigeneity, data, and inequality. With a focus on Indigenous futures, her current research explores the racialization of Indigenous identity and group boundary-making, Indigenous population statistics, and data for health and economic justice on Indian reservations. Small-Rodriguez is cofounder of the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, which helps ensure that data for and about

Indigenous nations and peoples in the United States (American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians) are utilized to advance Indigenous aspirations for collective and individual well-being. She also serves on the board of directors for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Database. Small-Rodriguez received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Arizona.

David T. Takeuchi is associate dean for faculty excellence in the University of Washington School of Social Work. He is a sociologist with extensive experience in research design, sampling strategies for diverse populations, and data analyses using different statistical methods; he has written extensively on issues related to the unequal distribution of health and illness in society, particularly around race, ethnic, immigration, and socioeconomic status. Takeuchi received the Legacy Award from the Family Research Consortium for his research and mentoring and the Innovations Award from the National Center on Health and Health Disparities for his research contributions. He received the University of Washington 2011 Marsha Landolt Distinguished Mentor Award, the Leonard Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions of the Sociological Study of Health, and the American Sociological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Study of Asian American Communities. Takeuchi is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, the Sociological Research Association, and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, and he is a current member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Population. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Hawaii.

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