[4] Her research on racial inequality in the United States has been featured on NPR,[5] New York Times,[6] and The Wall Street Journal.
[1][4] Derenoncourt graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Gender studies and a minor in molecular biology.
[3] She was also a visiting student at the UC Berkeley Center for Equitable Growth from 2016 to 2017.
[8][4] She has examined the backlash in the northern U.S. states toward the Great Migration and the resulting problems in black upward mobility.
[4] Her paper with Claire Montialoux demonstrates the role minimum wage played in racial income disparities between black and white workers in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where the expansion of the minimum wage in 1967 accounted for a 20% of the decrease in racial income gaps.