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Chicago Sun Times
Mortgage Lending Practices Criticized at City Council Committee Hearing

At the time they applied for a home loan, Joe Bozeman and his wife, Rayne, were self-described “Ph.D.s with reliable jobs.” He was an energy and environmental engineer. She was a professor at Chicago State University.
They applied for and were confident they could handle a loan of between $400,000 and $500,000. But they were wrong. Three banking institutions told them so...

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Chicago's Black Women in STEAM Blog

“Chicago’s Black Women in STEAM” is a new series on The Adler ’Scope that highlights the awesome women of Chicago who are doing amazing things in science, technology, engineering, art, and math fields here in our own community. Meet women of varying ages, backgrounds, and interests and learn their unique stories.

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Popular Science
White Americans’ Diets are Particularly Bad for the Planet

​-- Rayne Bozeman hopes this interdisciplinary work can help scientists better incorporate social categories into their research. “Who we think of ourselves in terms of our social identity shapes all of our behavior,” she says. “So if we’re trying to be mindful about what we do and how we impact the environment—and policymakers or researchers are trying to understand this better—we should definitely not ignore the nuance of social identity.”
See the full article here.