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Narguesse Keyhani

Narguesse Keyhani is an Associate Professor at the Université Lyon II. Her doctoral dissertation traced how relations interculturelles emerged as a concept in French social sciences and was later deployed by policymakers willing to reframe public debates around immigration. Her recent work explores contemporary forms of racism in French society, with a focus on discrimination in the workplace and the way these are processed in the justice system.


Lauren Rivera

Lauren Rivera is an expert on workplace personnel practices, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has written extensively on hiring and promotion practices in elite professional service firms. Her award-winning book Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs (Princeton University Press) investigates hiring decisions for top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms. She is currently working on a variety of projects examining discrimination in public and private education.


Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is the is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won several prizes. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.