Fenaba Addo

Fenaba R. Addo is an associate professor of public policy. Her recent work examines debt and wealth inequality with a focus on family and relationships and higher education, and union formation and economic strain as a social determinant of health and well-being.

She has also focused on the role that consumer and family policies serve in reinforcing these relationships. Prior to her current position, Addo was the Lorna Jorgensen Wendt Associate Professor of Money, Relationships, and Equality (MORE) in the School of Human Ecology’s Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She received her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University and holds a B.S. in Economics from Duke University.