Maya R. Elsner

Maya Elsner is a PhD student in Public Policy & Sociology at the University of Michigan. She joins the 2025 cohort after earning her B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar. In 2023, Maya was selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Maya's research interests broadly include post-pandemic trends in housing, labor, and socioeconomic mobility, place-based inequality and gentrification, political economy, racial capitalism, and the sociology of finance. Her policy areas of interest include finance, labor, housing, and social welfare.