Olivia Klevorn

Biography

Olivia A. Klevorn is a senior at Yale, where she majors in anthropology. Active in the performing arts, she directs the Heritage Theatre Ensemble, which presents the works of black artists, and is president of WORD, a student-run poetry association. Her mother was among the first African-Americans to move to Ferguson, Missouri, when the city was virtually all white. Much of her academic work is focused on the problem of disinvestment in low-income minority communities and the resultant inequality in home ownership.