Nina Yancy is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant whose work investigates the relationship between geography, politics, and prejudice in the US context.

A political scientist by training, she is the author of How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2022). A sample of Nina’s research appears in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (© Cambridge University Press; PDF available here). Currently, Nina serves as a lecturer at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on topics related to race, place, and public policy.

Nina brings to her work several years of applied experience in McKinsey & Company’s public and social sector practice. At McKinsey, Nina helped clients across federal, state, and local government, as well as in the social sector, build and implement strategies related to economic development, workforce development and re-skilling, and promoting racial equity. In parallel, Nina’s research at the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility led to publications on financial inclusion, Black entrepreneurship, racial equity in pre-K–12 education, and the geography of equity for both Black residents and Latino residents of US communities.

Nina holds a bachelor’s degree in social studies from Harvard College and a PhD in politics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is from Texas and now lives in New York.