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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.

Adrian Narayan is the former government affairs associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Narayan served as a field representative and legislative aide to Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), advising the congresswoman on a diverse range of public policy issues throughout California’s 45th congressional district. He previously worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Los Angeles as an assistant to the president, where he was actively engaged with community stakeholder development and organized outreach programs to increase local voter registration. He has also held positions with former California Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas (D), California State Controller Betty Yee, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles. Narayan received a bachelor’s degree in political science and gender studies from Loyola Marymount University.

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.