Alyasah Ali Sewell is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at Emory University. Sewell has affiliations in the Department of African American Studies in Emory College and the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Rollins School of Public Health. They direct data equity research programs through the Critical Racism Data Lab and The Race and Policing Project. Dr. Sewell’s research addresses the sociopolitical mechanisms of racism that manufacture and maintain intersectional inequality with a particular focus on police violence, health disparities, and medical bioethics. Sewell’s research has been cited in over 12 languages — both for international, national, and state proceedings and leading media outlets, including NPR, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, NBC, ABC, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Time, Salon, Huffington Post, and the Associated Press. Their research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Baden-Württemburg Foundation. Sewell has been honored as a Georgia Sociologist of the Year and a Planned Parenthood Dream Keepers of “The Future”.   They received postdoctoral training in Demography in the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania and their Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Sewell graduated summa cum laude in Sociology at the University of Florida with a minor in Women’s Studies.