Yolanda Wiggins is an assistant professor of sociology in the College of Social Science. Her research focuses on higher education, race relations, college access and equity gaps, policing and the impacts of criminalization, and the social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). She is an expert on intergenerational Black family dynamics and exchanges, education (including STEM education), educational policies, and culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy. She holds a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.