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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. 

Tim Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science, at Columbia University. He served the Biden Administration as the special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy on the National Economic Council. Wu was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.