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Dr. Andrene Wright is an Anna Julia Cooper fellow and incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . She defended her dissertation on September 19, 2022 from Northwestern University and recently served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University , specializing in urban politics and political behavior at the intersection of race, gender, and class. As a scholar, she primarily focuses on producing work that centers the voices of Black women and girls – p
Wright is a first-generation American born to Jamaican immigrants. She was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and earned her Bachelors’s degree from the City University of New York (CUNY) John Jay College of Criminal Justice (2017). Wright was also a Vera Fellow (2016), working for the Center on Youth Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice . At John Jay College, students are encouraged to be “fierce advocates for justice.” She can proudly say that this mantra is reflected in her academic praxis, teaching, and ser
Wright’s philosophy, shaped by Black feminists before her, believes that tackling the social and political ills that disenfranchise Black women, can create safer and more equitable conditions for all other groups.
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