PROFILE

Andrene Wright is a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State University’s Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on urban politics and political behavior at the intersections of race, gender, and class. Her work uplifts the voices of Black women and girls, who are often left out of race and gender scholarship. Wright earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. She was also a Vera Fellow at the Center on Youth Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice.