Equitable Growth announces launch of Nonresident Scholars program

New program will elevate academics across subjects and disciplines to inform timely economic policy debates

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CONTACT: Katie Wilcoxson, kwilcoxson@equitablegrowth.org

WASHINGTON – The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced the launch of a new Nonresident Scholars program that will connect academics to policymakers and ensure public debates are grounded in economic evidence.

Since its founding in 2013, Equitable Growth has built a network of trusted academic advisors and invested in scholars doing rigorous research at the intersection of inequality and growth. The new Nonresident Scholars program comes as a part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to introduce more targeted training and opportunities for its academic network to engage with the policymaking community and the media. The inaugural cohort will consist of researchers from the organization’s academic network spanning disciplines, institutions, and career stages who will be available to offer analysis on timely developments in tax policy, family and labor policy, and macroeconomic trends.

“Our academic network is the lifeblood of our mission to advance evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth,” said Equitable Growth’s President and CEO Shayna Strom. “We want to make sure that policymakers and the media are informed by top scholars on the economy. Through this program, we will be ensuring that that happens. We’re looking forward to adding more scholars in the coming years.”

Members of the 2024 Nonresident Scholars cohort include:

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and a 2019 Equitable Growth grantee
Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, assistant professor of finance at the University of California San Diego and a 2018 Equitable Growth grantee
Arindrajit Dube, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a 2018 and 2021 Equitable Growth grantee
Janet Gornick, director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality and professor of political science and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center
Andria Smythe, assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University and a 2020 and 2022 Equitable Growth grantee
Nirupama Rao, assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a 2019 Equitable Growth grantee
Daniel Reck, assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland and a 2018 Equitable Growth grantee
Jacob Robbins, assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, former Equitable Growth Dissertation Scholar, and a 2016, 2020, and 2021 Equitable Growth grantee
Jesse Rothstein, professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a 2014 Equitable Growth grantee
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics

For a full list of nonresident scholars, click here.

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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. For more information, see www.equitablegrowth.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook @equitablegrowth.