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K. Miya Woolfalk is a third-year doctoral student in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in History from Stanford University in 2005. Prior to entering graduate school, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and taught high school level history and civics courses at California Education Plan, School for Independent Learners. Her primary field of research is American politics and her research interests include political behavior and public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and social policy and inequality. Her work has considered the influence of racial identification and racial group consciousness on mixed-race social policy preferences, the impacts of economic, racial and ethnic contexts on U.S. state-level social spending, and the effects of economic and racial inequalities in political participation on representational biases in social policy opinions. Woolfalk is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellow, a former American Political Science Association Minority Fellow and a former Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.