Amy Batchelor is a program examiner in the Medicaid branch at the Office of Management and Budget and an adjunct instructor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. She holds a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University and a master’s in social work from Columbia University.
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Bonnie Kavoussi
Bonnie Kavoussi is a former policy fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Harvard University.
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Jeffrey Burnette
Jeffrey Burnette is assistant professor of economics at Rochester Institute of Technology. His research is in the areas of education, race and inequality with a focus on understanding their intersection with American Indian and Alaska Native identity. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York University (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2005 and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the SUNY at Albany.
Alix Gould-Werth
Alix Gould-Werth is the former director of family economic security policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was a human services researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Gould-Werth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Her work focuses on poverty and inequality and has been published in Monthly Labor Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Service Review, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Survey Practice.
Corey Husak
Corey Husak is the policy advisor to Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), U.S. Senate, and research fellow at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of Washington D.C. Previously, he was the senior manager of government and external relations at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Husak was the NAFTA Policy Coordinator for the Corn Refiners Association and served as an Economic Policy Staffer for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO). While earning a master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago, Husak completed projects in economic and urban policy for Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Office of the CFO of Washington, D.C. Husak received a bachelor’s in history and international relations from William Jewell College after spending a year at the University of Oxford.
Mark Paul
Mark Paul is assistant professor of economics at New College of Florida. His research is in the areas of inequality, environmental economics, and applied microeconomics, focused on understanding the causes and consequences of inequality and assessing and designing remedies to address it. He is a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and previously was a postdoctoral associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2016 and his Bachelor of Arts in economics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011. His writings have appeared in The American Prospect, The Nation, The Hill, Washington Monthly, US News & World Report, Jacobin, and Dissent, among other publications. His work has been cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Slate, and more.
Martha Bailey
Martha Bailey is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey’s research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography, and health in the United States within the long-run perspective of economic history. Her work has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women’s childbearing, career decisions, and compensation, and the short- and long-term effects of Great Society programs, including a co-edited book titled Legacies of the War on Poverty. Her research has won the IZA Prize for the Best Young Labor Economist, the Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History, and the CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Award for Best Paper by an Economist under 35 years of age. Bailey also has won several college-level awards for outstanding teaching, including most recently the 2017 John Dewey Teaching Award, and currently serves as an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Literature and the American Economic Review. Bailey earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University and her B.A. in economics and German from Agnes Scott College.
Raksha Kopparam
Raksha Kopparam was a research associate at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she interned at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, working with their Division of Housing Mission and Goals. Her research interests are in antitrust policy, gender wage inequality, and trade policy. In 2018, Kopparam earned her bachelor’s in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Somin Park
Somin Park was the Senior Research Assistant to former Executive Director Heather Boushey at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Somin interned with the Federal Fiscal Policy Team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. She holds a bachelor’s in economics and bachelor’s in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.