Jamila Michener, PhD is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Senior Associate Dean for Public Engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy, and the inaugural director of the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures. Michener studies poverty, racism, and public policy, with a particular focus on health and housing. Her research investigates the ways public policy and political institutions shape the material and political lives of economically and racially marginalized denizens, as well as the ways members of such groups gain power to affect policy. She is author of the award-winning book, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics.

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