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Lauren Rivera

Lauren Rivera

Lauren Rivera is professor of management and organizations (and professor of sociology, by courtesy) at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. An expert in social inequality, she is the author of Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs (Princeton University Press, 2015).  icon

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