Valeria Sinclair-Chapman

[1] After obtaining her PhD, Sinclair-Chapman became a professor at the University of Rochester, where she later became the Director of Graduate Programs in the Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity.

[1] Sinclair-Chapman coauthored a book with Frederick C. Harris and Brian D. McKenzie, called Countervailing Forces in African-American Political Activism, 1973-1994 and published in 2006.

[2] The book uses group-level data to argue that poorer and less educated African Americans, who are more often the victims of crime, are also less likely to be politically active than wealthier African Americans.

[4] She is the Director for the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue.

[5] She has contributed analyses for news outlets on topics relating to minority political participation in America.