Jennifer Patrice Sims is a dissertator in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Spanish, from Hampton University. During the spring of her junior year,
she studied abroad at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain through the Council on International Education Exchange. In
December 2006, Jenn completed a Master of Arts in Sociology, with additional course work in Gender Studies, at Vanderbilt
University. Her research interests include race/ethnicity and social psychology with an empirical focus on mixed race identity
and experience. She likes sushi, country music, and the color pink; and her favorite non-academic activities are running,
talking on the phone, and watching Adult Swim on Comedy Central.