Kendra Bischoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Her primary research interests relate to the intersection of neighborhoods and schools. In one area of research, she studies the patterns, the causes, and the consequences of racial and socioeconomic residential segregation. Her work has documented patterns in income segregation over time in the United States, and has shown that rising income inequality has contributed to an increase in income segregation among American families. Her work has also shown that the fragmentation of school districts is related to elevated racial segregation, indicating that political boundaries are an important mechanism leading to segregated institutions. A second line of research examines the relationship between elementary and secondary school enrollment decisions and neighborhood contexts, such as the levels and geographic patterns of social inequality among residents and the prevalence of school choice options. She also has an ongoing interest in the role of schools in fostering civic engagement and citizenship, and in how unequal school environments shape opportunities for civic education.
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Kimberly Clausing
Kimberly Clausing is the Eric M. Zolt Chair of Tax Law and Policy at the University of California Law school. During the first part of the Biden Administration, Clausing was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury, serving as the lead economist in the Office of Tax Policy. Prior to UCLA, she was the Thormund Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College, where she taught international trade, international finance, and public finance. Her research studies the taxation of multinational firms. Clausing received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University—all in economics.
Kea Fiedler
Kea Fiedler passed away in 2016. She was a PhD student in the Public and Urban Policy program at the New School’s Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. She was interested in the ways in which public policies and collective action can reduce economic inequality. Her work mainly focused on labor market policies and industrial relations in an international/comparative perspective. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Bremen University in Germany and a Master’s in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Kavya Vaghul
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.
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.
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 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.