Mariana Laverde is a postdoctoral associate at the Tobin Center at Yale University and will be an assistant professor in economics at Boston College starting in the summer of 2021. Her research focuses on applied market design and the economics of education. In particular, she studies the equity gains associated with algorithm-based assignments to allocate seats in public schools, as well as teachers’ dynamic preferences for schools and the geographic distribution of school quality.

Conrad Miller is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Haas School of Business. He is a labor economist with research interests in firm sorting and discrimination.

Zhixiu Yu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. Yu was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research fellow at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School during 2022-2023.

Myra Yazbeck is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD in Economics from Université Laval in 2011. In 2012, she completed a year of post-doctoral studies at McGill University, Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health, where she developed a research agenda on health inequalities. Yazbeck's dissertation focuses on the impact of social networks on health outcomes. Her research interests are mainly in the field of health economics, social interactions/networks and inequality.

Amanda Agan is Assistant Professor of Economics and Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. Her research uses both quasi-experimental and field experimental methods to answer policy-relevant questions in criminal justice and labor economics. She has published several papers related to inequality, discrimination, and crime in leading peer-reviewed economics journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Alex Imas’s research examines how people learn and make decisions over time. Most recently, he studied how incorrect beliefs both feed into and propagate discrimination. Using formal theory and empirics, he shows that the evolution of discrimination—whether it is mitigated or exacerbated—depends critically on the extent of bias in the evaluation process and people’s awareness of it.

Nayoung Rim is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Naval Academy. Her research interests are racial and gender inequality in education and the labor market. Her research has examined how up-or-out promotion policies affect fertility timing decisions differently for men vs. women, the effectiveness of Title IX in reducing gender disparities in graduate education, and how in-group bias affects the internal dynamics of police departments. Her work has been supported by the AccessLex Institute, AIR, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Jennifer Doleac is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University and Director of the Justice Tech Lab. She also is Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through evidence-based policy solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice.

She is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, a research fellow at IZA — Institute of Labor Economics, and the host of the “Probable Causation” podcast.

Marta Golin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Zurich and Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development. She holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Economics from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College).

Mariyana Zapryanova is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Smith College. Her research interests are in law and economics and economics of crime. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015.