Dr. Allison S. Reed studies how health and disability shape political participation, especially among minoritized (i.e. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, etc.) populations.
Reed received her BA (Urban Studies) from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a John B. Ervin Scholar. In 2023, she received her PhD (Sociology) from the University of Chicago. Her peer-reviewed work appears in Mobilization: An International Quarterly and Social Science & Medicine.