Cristobal Young is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. He studies how sociological dynamics shape the effects of public policies, in areas ranging from Unemployment Insurance to millionaire taxes. His methodological work focuses on multiverse analysis and robust results. Young received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, and M.A. and B.A. degrees in economics from the University of Victoria.
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Gernot Wagner
Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia University. He previously taught climate economics and policy at New York University, where he was a clinical associate professor at the Department of Environmental Studies and associated clinical professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. His research, writing, and teaching focus on climate risk and climate policy. Prior to joining NYU, Wagner was the founding executive director of Harvard University’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, a research associate at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy. Before Harvard, he served as economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, from 2008 to 2016, most recently as lead senior economist (2014–2016) and member of its Leadership Council (2015–2016). Wagner writes the Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green and has written or co-written four books: But will the planet notice? (2011), Climate Shock (2015), Stadt, Land, Klima (2021), and Geoengineering: the Gamble (2021). Gernot holds a joint A.B. in environmental science and public policy, and economics from Harvard University; an M.A. in economics from Stanford University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.
Jonathan Colmer
Jonathan Colmer is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia and director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. His research combines empirical analysis with insights from economic theory and environmental science to better understand how economic activity and the environment influence one another. He is a research affiliate of IZA, the CESifo Research Network, the Center for Economic Performance, the IGC, and the CAGE Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Exeter.
Deniz Civril
Deniz Çivril is a research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and special sworn status researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau. Her research interests center on labor economics, international trade, and corporate finance. Her current projects explore the effects of state paid leave laws on firms using confidential U.S. firm- and individual-level data. She received her Ph.D. in international economics and finance from Brandeis University in 2014 and her M.A. in psychology from The New School in 2019.
Kristin Butcher
Kristin F. Butcher is vice president and director of microeconomic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the inaugural holder of the Marshall I. Goldman Chair in Economics at Wellesley College. She has held positions as director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, where she continues as a nonresident senior fellow, as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as faculty positions at Boston College and Virginia Tech. She is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on immigration, health, education, and criminal justice. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Princeton University, an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College.
Sari Pekkala Kerr
Sari Pekkala Kerr is a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and a research economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her studies on the gender wage gap, the mommy track, family leave policy, and immigrant entrepreneurship focus especially on women in the workplace. She is interested in how labor markets, along with policy and industrial conditions, shape the behavior of firms and the career trajectories of their employees. She received a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and completed her postdoctoral work as the Yrjö Jahnsson Fellow in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Daniel Galvin
Daniel J. Galvin is an associate professor of political science and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. His current research focuses on labor policy and politics, worker organizations, and the enforcement of labor standards. He is writing a book on the changing politics of workers’ rights and the efforts of low-wage workers to build power and strengthen their rights and protections in the workplace. He also researches and writes on presidential politics, political parties, and American political development. He is the author of Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, co-editor of Rethinking Political Institutions: the Art of the State, and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. Galvin received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and his B.A. in politics and legal studies from Brandeis University.
Hana Shepherd
Hana Shepherd is an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on realizing employment protections for low-wage workers and employee power in low-wage workplaces. She asks how social networks, social norms and culture, and organizational practices shape behavior, and thus facilitate or impede social change. She is working on projects on how local government agencies enforce employment protections; how to create supportive online communities for retail workers; and how organizational practices shape networks in low-wage jobs, with implications for collective action. Her work appears in outlets such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, and Sociological Science. Shepherd received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and her M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University.
Jenn Round
Jenn Round is a senior fellow with the labor standards enforcement program at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers University. Prior to joining CIWO, Round helped to launch and led enforcement at the Seattle Office of Labor Standards. She has played an integral role in planning, implementing, and managing numerous rule of law programs, including developing a culturally relevant program designed to reduce domestic violence in rural Alaska and creating an undergraduate law degree program at the American University of Afghanistan. She holds a J.D. from George Washington University Law School and a LL.M. from the University of Washington School of Law.
Janice Fine
Janice Fine is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and director of the workplace justice lab@RU within the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. For the latter, she writes and teaches about economic justice movements and organizations including unions, worker centers, community organizing groups and other forms of collective action in the U.S and cross-nationally; historical and contemporary debates within labor movements regarding immigration; labor standards enforcement; privatization and state capacity for contract oversight. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2005, she worked as a labor, community and political organizer and trainer for over twenty years and continues to collaborate with unions, worker centers, immigrant rights organizations and community organizing groups. She holds a B.A. in labor studies/community planning from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.