Moderator: Gerald Jaynes, A. Whitney Griswold Professor ofEconomics, African American Studies, and Urban Studies
with Distinguished Speakers:
Anthony Abraham Jack is an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds the Shutzer assistant professorship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. His first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, was awarded the 2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award and named a NPR Book’s Best Book of 2019.
Mesmin Destin is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in addition to a fellow of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. Mesmin Destin completed his PhD in Social Psychology at he University of Michigan in 2010. Professor Destin uses experiments and other methods to investigate factors shaping the experiences and outcomes of students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.