Jacob Anbinder is the manager of academic engagement and impact at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Through writing, editing, skills-building, and media relations, he works to strengthen the relationships between Equitable Growth’s network of academic experts and the broader policymaking world. Anbinder joins Equitable Growth as a recipient of the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship, a collaborative venture that creates opportunities for early-career scholars to contribute their talents to nonprofit organizations. A historian of modern U.S. politics, Anbinder earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the author of the forthcoming NIMBY Nation: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027).