Rachel Laryea

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Rachel Naa-Du Laryea is a doctoral student in the joint degree program in Anthropology and African American Studies. In 2016, she received a B.A., summa cum laude, in Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University. Prior to starting the program, Rachel was an analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. in their Corporate Services & Real Estate Division, working within the firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance group. More broadly, her research interests encompass questions of community formation, subversion, and the impacts and controls of capitalistic processes within Black populations.