Profile: Niki Dickerson von Lockette

Niki Dickerson von Lockette studies the structural features of the U.S. labor market that enable or hinder access to employment opportunities for black and Latino workers. Her current work investigates the role of residential segregation in the job allocation process and patterns of race/gender occupational segregation in the U.S. labor market.

The National Academy of Science awarded her a HUD post-doctoral fellowship to study the impact of residential segregation on the race gap in unemployment and wages for blacks and Latinos in marginalized communities in U.S. metropolitan areas.

She has served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.