Phil Weiser is Colorado Attorney General, sworn in as the State’s 39th Attorney General on January 8, 2019. As the state’s chief legal officer, he is committed to protecting the people of Colorado and building an innovative and collaborative organization that will address a range of statewide challenges, from addressing the opioid epidemic to reforming our criminal justice system to protecting our land, air, and water. Before running for office, Weiser served as the Hatfield Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where he founded the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council. Weiser previously served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and as Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation in the Obama Administration’s National Economic Council. He served on President Obama’s Transition Team, overseeing the Federal Trade Commission and previously served in President Bill Clinton’s Department of Justice as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, advising on telecommunications matters, Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado.
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Nathan Seltzer
Nathan is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was also a predoctoral trainee at the Center for Demography and Ecology. Prior to entering the doctoral program in Sociology at UW-Madison, he received a B.A. in Sociology and French from Tulane University in 2011 and an M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research from New York University in 2014.
Sam Abbott
Sam Abbott is a former family economic security senior policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Before Equitable Growth, Abbott was a child welfare and juvenile justice researcher and consultant at Child Trends and Georgetown University’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform. He received an M.P.P. from Georgetown University and a B.A. from Bard College.
Eric Zwick
Eric Zwick is an Associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Zwick earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in business economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics with high honors from Swarthmore College.
Naomi Zewde
Naomi Zewde is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zewde holds a Ph.D. in health policy from Penn State University, and an M.P.H. and B.A. from Emory University.
Matto Mildenberger
Matto Mildenberger is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-runs the Energy and Environmental Transitions Lab at the university. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and completed an M.A. in global governance at the University of Waterloo and an Hon. B.S. in botany and international relations at the University of Toronto.
Yair Listokin
Yair Listokin is the Shibley Family Fund Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He received his J.D. at Yale Law School, his Ph.D. and M.S. in economics at Princeton University, and his A.B. in economics at Harvard University.
Aaron S. Kesselheim
Aaron S. Kesselheim is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Kesselheim received his medical and legal training at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.P.H. at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dania Francis
Dania V. Francis is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her current research involves using experimental and quasi-experimental methods to identify structural causes of racial and socioeconomic academic achievement gaps. More broadly, her research interests include examining racial and socioeconomic disparities in education, wealth accumulation, and labor markets. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in public policy from Duke University, an M.A. in economics from Harvard University, and her B.A. in economics from Smith College.
Lizabeth Cohen
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. From 2011-18 she was the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her most recent book is Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2019. It examines the benefits and costs of the shifting strategies for rebuilding American cities after World War II by following the career of urban redeveloper Edward J. Logue, who oversaw major renewal projects in New Haven, Boston, and New York State from the 1950s through the 1980s. Cohen’s previous books include Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer, and A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. She is also co-author with David Kennedy and Margaret O’Mara of a widely used college and advanced placement United State history textbook, The American Pageant. Before joining the Harvard faculty, Cohen served in the history departments at Carnegie Mellon University and New York University. Cohen received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and her A.B. from Princeton University.