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Randy Albelda
Randy Albelda (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts) is a professor of economics and has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. Her research and teaching covers a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income families. She has written on welfare reform, paid family leave policies, racial and gender divisions in occupations, the distribution of family income and earnings, and gender and race bias in radical theories of labor market segmentation.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Marcellus Andrews
Marcellus Andrews earned a BSBA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania as well as an MA, MPhil and PhD in economics from Yale University. Andrews has been a full professor and chair of economics at Wellesley College and the first Lilian and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. Andrews comments on public affairs and economics in the pages of The Nation and on National Public Radio’s business affairs journal Marketplace. Andrews is the author of many academic articles published in specialist journals as well as The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America (NYU Press, 1999). His current book projects are Economic Policy and the Road to Social Justice (completed manuscript) and Re-imagining American Freedom (in progress).  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it  

Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge since 1990. His most recent books include Kicking Away the Ladder – Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002), which is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize, Restructuring Korea Inc. (with Jang-Sup Shin, 2003), Globalization, Economic Development and The Role of the State (2003), and Reclaiming Development – An Alternative Economic Policy Manual (with Ilene Grabel, 2004). Ha-Joon Chang has worked as a consultant for numerous international organisations, including various UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Niki T. Dickerson
Niki T. Dickerson (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Sociology) studies the structural features of the U.S. labor market that enable or hinder access to employment opportunities for marginalized workers. Her current work investigates the role of residential segregation in the job allocation process and patterns of race/gender occupational segregation in the U.S. labor market. The National Academy of Science recently awarded her a HUD post-doctoral fellowship to study the impact of residential segregation on the race gap in unemployment and other employment outcomes for blacks and Latinos in marginalized communities in U.S. metropolitan areas. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Roberto Frenkel
Roberto Frenkel has been Principal Research Associate at CEDES since 1977 and Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires since 1984. Presently he is also Director of the Graduate Program on Capital Markets and teaches graduate courses at the Di Tella and FLACSO-San Andrés universities. He is a member of the UNDP Advisers Group; member of the Board of the World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER), United Nations University; and member of the Academic Council of CEFID-AR. He has published numerous books and articles in academic journals on macroeconomic theory and policy, money and finance, inflation and stabilization policies and labor market and income distribution, with special focus on Argentina and Latin America.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

William Spriggs
William Spriggs (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Economics) is Chair of the Department, and a professor, of Economics at Howard University in Washington, DC. Most recently, Bill was at the Economic Policy Institute as senior fellow, having returned there in 2004.  Before that, he was Executive Director of the National Urban League’s Institute for Opportunity and Equality, where among other duties he was editor of the State of Black America 1999, and led research on pay equity that won the NUL the 2001 Winn Newman Award from the National Committee on Pay Equity.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Ben Zipperer
Ben Zipperer is currently a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, he was a Research Assistant at CEPR.  This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it