Fenaba R. Addo

is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She specializes in debt and racial wealth inequality and her first book, A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis Among Black Borrowers, co-authored with Jason Houle, is available now by Harvard Education Press.

Read the student debt amicus brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court.

Fenaba was Interviewed for this NowThisNews.com feature “What’s next in the fight for student debt forgiveness.”

LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES

New article out with Regina S. Baker:

Baker, Regina and Fenaba R. Addo. 2023. “Barriers to Racial Wealth Equality.” Human Rights. Vol 48, 2, 2-5.

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A Dream Defaulted: The Student Loan Crisis Among Black Borrowers

A Dream Defaulted explores how the student loan crisis disproportionately affects Black borrowers and why rising student debt is both a cause and consequence of social inequality in the United States.