Jennifer Etienne-Adeyemo is a sociologist of race and education interested in how social institutions, such as schools, operate as racial structures. She specializes in examining diversity ideology in organizations and how Black people make sense of navigating and/or rejecting its limitations. Her dissertation, “‘A Wound Not Yet Healed’: Diversity Ideology and School Choice in a Post-Brown v. Board of Education Suburb”, examines the creation of the first new school in a historically-Black neighborhood since desegregation over 50 years ago. She analyzes parent interviews, archives, and data from the school creation process to understand how Black families made sense of their students’ experiences throughout the district and their choice to enroll in the new neighborhood school. She has worked on related research projects at the Smart Museum of Art and NPR and is developing her dissertation into a book project explaining how contradictions in narratives of racial progress shape antiblackness.