BIOGRAPHY

Alyasah "Ali" Sewell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. They are trained as a medical sociologist, a social psychologist, and a social science research methodologist. Their areas of research are in racial inequality, structural racism, health disparities, and social attitudes. They specialize in using multilevel models to connect public policy data on housing and policing inequities with lay reports of health.

ORIGINS

Born in Atlanta, GA to Afro and Latinx Caribbean immigrants, Ali found their voice on the spoken word stage as a young adult. They were politicized by 9/11, which occurred two weeks after they started college. A researcher at heart, they embraced Sociology as a means to sustain their childhood vision of being an artist, writer, and activist. Their mantra is: "Good times! It's all love; working on it being all justice".