Dr. Fry’s career began with a dissertation on public policy implementation in community based services for the aging and the mentally ill. Before joining the IUS faculty, she taught at Auburn University and spent four years as a research and policy associate at the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development in Berea, KY.
Dr. Fry has explored the intersection of political institutions, policy and inequality through work on charter schools, childcare, violence against women, supports for the working poor, payday lending, state tax and budget issues, sustainable development, higher education affordability and the fiscal impact of the coal industry in Kentucky. Dr. Fry continues to work on issues of economic development, poverty and race in Appalachia and is also exploring community based services in Southern Indiana and the Louisville Metro Area through the work of the Applied Research and Education Center.
