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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 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.

Ed Paisley is the former editorial director & senior advisor at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Previously he was the managing director of Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Paisley was a senior director of communications at The Pew Charitable Trusts and the vice president for editorial at the Center for American Progress. He was previously a business and finance journalist for more than two decades, successfully launching the specialist Wall Street print and web publication The Deal as its managing editor in New York. He worked as an editor and journalist covering business, finance, and politics for the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones & Company publication, and Institutional Investor magazine throughout Asia. He began his journalism career with American Banker in Washington, D.C. Paisley holds a master’s in East Asian history from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s in American studies from George Mason University.

Dionna Cheatham was a research and policy assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth Dionna was the Research and Development Intern at the Kent County Health Department, Community Health Division. She previously served as a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Emerging Leaders intern in the Office of Congressman Sandy Levin. Dionna earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Public and Non Profit Administration; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Grand Valley State University.

David Hudson was the Editorial Director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, David served as an associate director of content in the White House Office of Digital Strategy and the managing editor at the Center for American Progress. A native of Richmond, Virginia, David received his bachelor’s degree in English and African American and African Studies from the University of Virginia.

David Evans is the former director of design & branding at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, David worked for Bloomberg News as a graphics reporter and at USA Today as a visual journalist. He has collaborated closely with reporters, editors, analysts, and other multimedia professionals to create animated-diagrammatic infographics, data visualizations, and multimedia essays. His work has been recognized by the Society of News Design, Editor & Publisher, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Online News Association. He earned a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in communication arts and design from Virginia Commonwealth University.

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Labor Economics and the Econometric Lab. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982-83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card’s research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender-related issues. He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co-edited eight additional titles, and has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the AEA in 2021 and co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021. He received his B.A. from Queen’s University (Kingston) and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.