Emily Cantrell is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy with interests in economic mobility and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. She received her bachelor’s degree from Denison University in 2017, where she designed her own major in Human Development and Social Policy with a focus on socioeconomic inequality in the United States. Emily worked for two years at Child Trends, a research organization that evaluates programs and policies to improve the lives of children and families. Her projects included an analysis of Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study data as part of a National Institutes of Health grant.