Public Policy Analysis Challenge

Seleeke Flingai is an educator whose work focuses on the intersection of racism and capitalism with urban spatial processes, economic (in)equity, and health. He is currently an Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago's Department of Public Health Sciences. Before his academic career, Dr. Flingai was an applied policy researcher in governmental and non-profit public policy organizations such as PolicyLink, the Vera Institute of Justice, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, where he worked alongside policymakers, leaders in grassroots organizations, and other city and regional government staff to support data-informed, health-promoting, historically grounded policy conversations and advocacy.

Dr. Flingai received his bachelor’s degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and a certificate in Public Health from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MPA in Domestic Policy with a certificate in Urban Policy and Planning from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.