This is his second year as Slivka’s Faculty Chair. He received his undergraduate degree (B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies) from Norfolk State University, and his graduate degrees (A.M. in Demography, Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology) from the University of Pennsylvania. He regularly teaches courses in the areas of racial inequality and statistics. His research falls broadly into the areas of formal demography (mortality in particular), racial inequality, quantitative methods, and computational social science. Outside of work, he enjoys cycling, running, listening to music, gaming, and spending time with his family—he brings his kids, Annika (9) & Jonah (5), to hang out at Slivka.