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.
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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.
Andreas Fagereng
Andreas Fagereng is a professor of finance at BI Norwegian Business School and a senior researcher at Statistics Norway. His research is mainly focused around household finance and macroeconomics. He holds an MS.c. in economics and econometric analysis from the University of Oslo and a Ph.D. in economics from European University Institute.
Shanthi Ramnath
Shanthi Ramnath is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Ramnath holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Daphne Chen
Daphne Chen is the managing director at Vega Economics. She received her B.B.A. in Business Administration from National Taiwan University, her M.A. in applied statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Sergio Ocampo
Sergio Ocampo is an assistant professor of economics at Western University in London, Ontario. Professor Ocampo received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Katherine Policelli
Katherine Policelli was the External Relations intern at Equitable Growth in the summer of 2019.
Cesar Perez
Cesar Perez is a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. Prior to joining PPIC, Cesar was a research assistant at the San Diego Housing Commission and a Family Economic Security intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California, San Diego and a BA in economics from University of California, Los Angeles.
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Emma Liebman
Emma Liebman is pursuing an M.P.H. at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Yale University in 2017. She currently works at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she focuses on opioid overdose prevention and control. Beyond substance use, her interests include criminal justice and family and medical leave.