Brielle Bryan received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and her MPP from Georgetown University. Her research examines inequality and barriers to opportunity in the United States, with an emphasis on racial inequities and the role of the criminal justice system. Her current projects examine how incarceration and felony conviction shape housing experiences, financial inclusion, wealth, interaction with the social safety net, and economic stability over the life course. She is also engaged in research teams investigating the consequences of fair chance housing policies and cross-national indigenous versus white disparities in child welfare system contact.

Dr. Bryan is a 2021 Russell Sage Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Pipeline Grantee and a proud member of the Osage Nation. Her work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and has been published in Social Forces, Demography, Criminology, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Science Research, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.