Writer: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Image from: Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth. 2020. “U.S. Racial Inequality May Be as Deadly as Covid-19.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (36):21854-21856.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is a sociologist and demographer who studies racial inequality in mortality in the historical and contemporary United States, and specializes in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities. She has extensively researched the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, where she also co-founded an award-winning community vaccination organization. She is also a demographic methodologist, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on population processes.
Elizabeth first worked with Michelle on an ongoing basis in the writing center at the University of Wisconsin when both were graduate students there. Since 2018, Elizabeth has had writing consultations with Michelle on articles that have appeared in a variety of academic and public-facing venues.