Chiara Chanoi is a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she worked as a research staff associate at Columbia University’s Department of Economics, where she primarily investigated racial disparities in police homicide victimization rates from economic and historical perspectives. She also participated in the Archer Fellowship program and interned at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Chanoi is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso, where she studied economics with minors in mathematics and international business.