Jae Song is an economist with the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review at the Social Security Administration. Song received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Albany.
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Iris Marechal
Iris Maréchal was a Fall intern at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth in 2017 and is a French exchange student at the Johns Hopkins University within the Aitchison Fellowship Program.
Greg Leiserson
Greg Leiserson is a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Previously, he was the director of tax policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Gene Kimmelman
Gene Kimmelman is senior counselor to the associate attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and in the Editorial Board of several Academic Journals in Economics. He is the Founder and Director of the UC Davis Migration Research Cluster. His Research focuses on the impact of international migrations on labor markets and productivity of the receiving countries and on the determinants of international migrations.
Gavin Kelly
Gavin Kelly is a leading media commentator on economics and public policy, writing for The Guardian, Financial Times, and other outlets, as well as being a regular blogger for the New Statesman. He covers a wide range of issues spanning economic policy, low pay, welfare reform, public services, and social mobility. Kelly is executive chair of the Resolution Foundation and chief executive of the Resolution Trust. Previously he was chief executive of Resolution Foundation. He joined the foundation from No. 10 Downing Street, where he worked as deputy chief of staff. He spent more than a decade in Whitehall and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at HMT, the senior advisor to the secretary of state at the Department for Education and the Department for Communities and Local Government, deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and a member of the No. 10 Policy Unit. Before working in government, he taught economics and politics at the University of Sheffield, where he received his doctorate.
Gabriel Matthews
Gabriel L. Matthews is a TA consultant at the American Institutes for Research. He was previously Equitable Growth’s Grants & Finance Assistant. He graduated from Brooklyn College and received a B.A. in political science with a concentration on philosophy.
Erica Handloff
Erica Handloff is the communications director at the Joint Economic Committee. Previously, she was the deputy communications director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Erica worked as a research assistant for the Northwestern University Department of Sociology and held an internship at the Center on Wrongful Convictions. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Northwestern University.
Elizabeth Munnich
Elizabeth Munnich received her Ph.D in economics from Notre Dame in 2013. Now an associate professor at the University of Louisville, Munnich’s research focuses on health economics and economics of the family.
Elisabeth Jacobs
Elisabeth Jacobs is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population. She is also the deputy director of WorkRise. Jacobs is the former senior director for Family Economic Security at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a co-founder of Brookings’ Social Mobility Memos blog. Earlier in her career, she served as senior policy advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, and as an advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.