Ronnie Clevenstine

Bio/Description

Ronnie Clevenstine is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University, affiliated with the Princeton Office of Population Research. Her research primarily focuses on poverty, place-based inequality, property insurance, and the social safety net. She is particularly interested in the role of climate risk and state policy environments in shaping community well-being and exploitation in rural areas and the American South. 
 

Prior to starting at Princeton, she received her BS in Economics from Clemson University and worked as a mixed-methods research assistant at a social policy research firm, where she conducted research on social insurance and safety net restriction at the federal and state level.