Margaret Brower

Graduate Research Assistant

During her time of employment with GenForward, Margaret Brower was a PhD student studying American and Comparative politics at the University of Chicago. She was also a UChicago Urban fellow. She has a Master of Arts degree in higher education and public policy from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and education from Colgate University. Prior to joining the program at the University of Chicago, she led a series of qualitative and qualitative research projects at the the National Forum for Higher Education and the Public Good and the Institute for Higher Education and Democracy (IDHE) focused on urban challenges, participatory action, policy feedback, immigration, college student voting, and youth political development. At the University of Chicago, as a student and as a researcher for GenForward, she focused on the political socialization of young people, especially youth of color, and the ways in which urban settings contextualize and shape this experience.