Kendall Riley is a T32 National Institute of Aging postdoctoral researcher with the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how the social environment (re)produces health inequalities, including how to harness quantitative methodology to better understand racial disparities in health and aging. Her current research assesses how violence within a state’s social environment—as defined by inequality-producing policies, culture, ideologies, and institutional behaviors—shape poor health and aging.
Her research has been supported by the American Sociological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program and the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. She is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellow.