Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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Rhiana Gunn Wright | |
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 Rhiana Gunn-Wright speaks at the Road to a Green New Deal Tour in 2019 | |
| Born | 1988 (age 37–38) |
| Alma mater | Yale University University of Oxford Institute for Women's Policy Research |
| Political party | Democratic Party of the United States |
| Movement | Green New Deal |
Rhiana Gunn-Wright (born 1988) is the Climate Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute.[1] She has worked with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an author of the Green New Deal. Gunn-Wright was educated at Yale, before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2013.
Gunn-Wright grew up in Englewood in the South Side of Chicago, where the local population are more likely to suffer from asthma because of their proximity to pollution.[2][3] She was raised by her mother and her grandmother. At the age of fourteen Gunn-Wright moved to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois.[4] Her asthma disappeared after a short amount of time. Gunn-Wright attended Yale University for her undergraduate degree, majored in African-American studies and graduated with honours in 2011.[4][5] During her studies she worked with the community in New Haven, helping at the Polly McCabe Centre for pregnant adolescents. The centre offers parenting classes and health care to young mothers. She was inspired by the New Haven Promise initiative as a way to break the cycle of disadvantage. After graduating she joined the Institute for Women's Policy Research as a research fellow. Here she worked alongside Heidi Hartmann on paid maternity leave.[6] In 2013 Gunn-Wright was selected as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford where she studied social policy.[5][7][8]
