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.
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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.
Ed Paisley
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.
Eileen Appelbaum
Eileen Appelbaum is a co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and visiting professor in the Department of Management at the University of Leicester, U.K. She has over 20 years of experience carrying out empirical research on the effects of public policies and company practices on outcomes for companies and workers. She studies work processes and work-life practices of organizations and their implications for organizational effectiveness and for the quality of jobs. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in mathematics from Temple University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dionna Cheatham
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 Kamin
David Kamin is deputy director of the National Economic Council in the White House. He is currently on leave as a professor of law at New York University School of Law. Kamin earned a B.A. in economics and political science from Swarthmore College, and a J.D. from NYU School of Law.
David Hudson
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.