A recent study from Pritzker Prof. Chika Okafor found that minorities receive disproportionately fewer jobs through referrals due to their smaller social group, a term Okafor coined as “social network discrimination,” even with color-blind hiring policies. The Daily: What initially led you to investigate the phenomenon of social network discrimination, especially given the existing economic models of discrimination? I found that, over time, the minority group will receive disproportionately fewer economic and social opportunities, all in equal and colorblind settings, simply because their social group is smaller. Okafor: Part of the research I’m hoping to explore is, what are the ways we respond to social network discrimination? In a setting in which everything is equal between the majority of the minority group, the minority group has disproportionately fewer opportunities.