Kavya Vaghul was a Senior Research Analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Kavya worked as a consultant for the City of Redmond, Washington and served as a legislative intern with Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington state. Kavya graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 2013 with a degree in Public Health with concentrations in statistics and international development.
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Kate Bahn
Kate Bahn is the research director of WorkRise at The Urban Institute. Previously, she was the director of labor market policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Before Equitable Growth, Bahn was an economist at the Center for American Progress, and she served as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College.
Julien Lafortune
Julien Lafortune is a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where he specializes in K–12 education. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonathan D. Moreno
Jonathan D. Moreno is a Penn Integrates Knowledge university professor at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the David and Lyn Silfen chair. He is also Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy. Moreno is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., and the author of several books on national security, science, and ethics. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, has served as a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions, and as an adviser to many non-governmental organizations. Additionally, Moreno is the U.S. member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, was an Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow, holds an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University, is a recipient of the Benjamin Rush Medal from the College of William and Mary Law School, and the Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship from Tufts University.
Jonathan Fisher
Jonathan Fisher is the former interim chief economist and research advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His areas of research include inequality, mobility, and personal bankruptcy. Prior to Equitable Growth, Fisher was at the Stanford University Center on Poverty and Inequality, where he was a research scholar and a senior researcher on the American Opportunity Study. He has also worked at the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A twice-awarded grantee of Equitable Growth, Fisher’s research has been published in the Review of Income and Wealth, Labour, the Journal of Macroeconomics, Contemporary Economic Policy, and elsewhere. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. from Alma College.
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and a digital fellow at the Initiative for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 2020 he was Gordon Billard Professor MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School. He has published over a hundred papers on many areas in economics with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation. He holds a B.A. in economics and social and political sciences from Queens College, University of Cambridge, an M.Sc. in industrial relations from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.
Jonathan B. Baker
Jonathan B. Baker is Research Professor of Law Emeritus at American University Washington College of Law. He specializes in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation. He has a J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
John Majewski
John Majewski is a professor of U.S. history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with an emphasis on political economy. His current project focuses on how different conceptions of economic creativity helped lead to the Civil War. Majewski holds a Ph.D. in economic history of the civil war from the University of California Los Angeles.
John Schmitt
John Schmitt is a senior economist and senior adviser at the Economic Policy Institute. He has an undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.
Jessica Fulton
Jessica Fulton is the former External Relations Director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Jessica served as Outreach Director at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, a research and advocacy organization focusing on budget issues in Washington, DC. She previously served as the Research and Policy Associate at the Chicago Urban League and as an intern in the Office of Congressman Tim Ryan. Jessica earned a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Chicago and a master’s in economic policy analysis from Depaul University.