Minali Aggarwal (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Departments of African American Studies and Political Science at Yale University. Her research focuses on identifying and interpreting the ways race is politically constructed and weaponized to serve both liberal and right-wing political projects. Her dissertation research examines how racialized data and statistical evidence generate new political challenges for racial justice movements, often subverting the radical and transformative demands of Black social movements.

Minali is also part of the editorial team for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Politics of the Multiracial Right (NYU Press 2026), which examines the growing appeal of right-wing politics among communities of color in the U.S.

Before beginning graduate school, Minali worked as a data scientist for five years. She received her B.S. from Georgetown University in 2016.