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Lindsay Kobayashi is an assistant professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from University College London in the United Kingdom, and her M.Sc. in epidemiology and her B.Sc. in life sciences from Queen’s University in Canada.

Clem Aeppli is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University. He received a B.Sc in Sociology and a B.A. in Mathematics from Brown University.

David Balan is a managing director at EconOne. He has a B.A. in economics, history, and philosophy from Binghampton University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jean Ross is an economist and tax policy analyst and the principal of Jean Ross Policy | Strategy.  She holds a M.C.P from the University of California, Berkeley in regional economics and economic development.

Sandra E. Black is a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University. She also is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the director of the NBER Study Group on Economic Mobility. Her research focuses on the role of early life experiences on the long-run outcomes of children, as well as issues of gender and discrimination. Black served as a member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from August 2015 to January 2017. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.