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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.

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.