Michael LaForest-Tucker is an assistant professor of economics & public policy at George Washington University's Trachtenberg School. His research leverages experimental, quasi-experimental, and structural modeling methods, with a particular focus on criminal justice, education, and military personnel policy.

Michael was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) and Analyst at USAFA’s Office of Labor and Economic Analysis. Prior to that he worked as a postdoctoral scholar with Penn State’s Criminal Justice Research Center and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and as a research director with the University of Chicago's Crime & Education Lab in New York City. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Virginia and a BS in economics & political science from the University of Michigan. During AY25-26 he will be visiting the University of Copenhagen's Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality.

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Completed Ph.D. in Public Policy at Harvard University in 2019.

My name is Sebastian Tello-Trillo, I am an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). My fields of specialization are Health Economics and Applied Microeconomics. I research on topics related to health insurance, mental health, Medicaid, health behaviors, and HIV. I have interest in the areas of health policy in the U.S and Latin America.

With Alex Hollingsworth, I am the co-host of the podcast "The Hidden Curriculum", a podcast on topics of productivity in the economics profession. I also gladly help out with the organization EconThaki, an organization that’s helping decrease the barriers of the path for PhD in Econ by providing information and classes. If you are interested in helping out shoot me an email!

Dr. Sandra Trejos is a Professor of Economics and Assistant Chair for the Business, Economics and Communication Department at Pennsylvania Western University (PennWest) - Clarion Campus and a Costa Rican native who became U.S. citizen in 2018. She has been part of the Faculty at PennWest since 2004 where she received tenure and promotion to full professorship in 2009. Nationally, Dr. Trejos received the Outstanding Latina Faculty: Service/Teaching in Higher Education Award at the 2014 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (A.A.H.H.E) Conference in Costa Mesa, California. She earned the 2009 Clarion University Outstanding Faculty Equity Award, and the 2010 Clarion University Faculty of the Year award at the Student-Athlete Luncheon.

In the economics profession, she is part of the American Society of Hispanic Economists, officially recognized by the American Economic Association as one of the affiliated organizations of the Allied Social Science Association (A.S.S.A.), and the Pennsylvania Economic Association (P.E.A.) where she served as the 2011-2012 Vice-President of Publicity, the 2012-013 Vice-president of Program and Proceedings and the 2013-2014 President Designate. She presided the P.E.A. during the 2014-2015 period. She is currently a mentor for the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (D.I.T.E) housed at Duke University, the American Economic Association Summer Program – Pipeline Conference and the Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics (A.M.I.E.).

Dr. Trejos has received multiple grants for research and professional development at both the college and the university levels throughout the years and was the principal investigator for a grant by the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education. She has been a reviewer for different publication outlets and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. She has also served as external reviewer for colleagues in the field and has done work for Pearson Publishing and published scholarly work in several peer-reviewed journals in the fields of economic education (as inspired by classroom-based research), international economics, and economic development. Lately, she has worked in the field of happiness economics.

Finally, Dr. Trejos served as judge for the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (P.J.A.S) for six years at both the regional and state levels.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University and Research Fellow at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. My research focuses on understanding gender and racial disparities in the labor market and evaluating the effectiveness of various interventions to improve outcomes for women and minorities.

I am also a Research Director at Science of Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and Co-Director of the BYU Gender & Civic Engagement Lab.

I am an applied economist with research interests in agricultural and food
policy. Currently, I work as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I received my Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and my undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. I have also previously worked at Mississippi State University and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

My research focuses on economic decision-making throughout the food supply chain from agricultural production to consumer demand. I am currently particularly interested in studying US agricultural production and applying modern econometric techniques to high-resolution panel data. By better understanding how individual producers and consumers make decisions, I hope to support producers, address market failures, and inform evidence-based policymaking.

In addition to my research, I greatly enjoy teaching. I have received several teaching awards including the UW–Madison Taylor Hibbard Club Excellence in Teaching Award (2020, 2023), the Myron H. and Anna Atwood Faculty Fellow Award (2022), and the Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award (2023). In 2019, I also earned a Certificate for Veterans’ Administrators and Certifying Officials from Mississippi State University.

Austin is an Associate Professor at Bates College and was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at Miami University (Ohio). He is an empirical microeconomist working on policy questions in the health, education, and labor-market sphere. His current research projects examine the impact of compensation structure on employee output, occupational licensing, and factors affecting the academic performance and early career outcomes of college students. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, and exploring the outdoors with family.

Dr. Abu S. Shonchoy is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Florida International University (FIU) and an affiliated professor at MIT's Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He also holds fellowship positions with the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Dr. Shonchoy is an applied economist with interest in issues of global development. He has a wide range of experience conducting field research and experiments in South Asia and West Africa. He has been engaged in more than 15 RCTs in the field of infrastructure, financial inclusion, labor market, and education in developing countries. His papers appeared in peer-reviewed international journals, including the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, as well as interdisciplinary journals such as Nature Scientific Reports, to name a few. His research has been highlighted in international and local news outlets such as BBC World, ABC Net, TVS Japan, and other media outlets worldwide. His current works have been showcased in the Global Development Blog and World Bank Research Digest. Dr. Shonchoy received several awards and recognitions, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Neil Vousden Memorial Scholarship and CDESG Best Paper Award.

I am Mamidipudi Ramakrishna Sharan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

My research centres around questions in development economics and political economy. I have worked as a researcher and policy economist, with research organizations, state governments and the central government in India. I was awarded my PhD from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in May 2020. Subsequently, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Global Development

Dr. Gitanjali Sen is a Professor, at the Department of Economics, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India. She specializes in Development Economics and is working in Applied Microeconomics areas that are relevant to public policy. Her research interest is in areas of inclusive development, particularly access to education, health, employment, finance, and their role in the study of poverty and inequality. Some of her current works include the study of early life health and its connection to later life outcomes, school education and higher education, access to health and labor market outcomes. Earlier, she has also worked in areas of child labor and returns to education. She has published in internationally acclaimed journals like World Development, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Feminist Economics, PLOS One, Population Research and Policy Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Environment and Development Economics, and the Economic and Political Weekly.