Lafe Metz, J.D.
Lafe Metz is a real estate development and transactional attorney focused on large-scale industrial development. Metz holds broad experience in all aspects of commercial real estate development, transactions, zoning and land use, government incentives, financing, leasing and property tax matters including tax increment financing and abatements.
Jaimie Worker, M.S.W
Jaimie K. Worker is the senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) at EPI. She is committed to ensuring that racial and gender equity is a public policy priority and that the leaders of communities impacted by structural racism and oppression are key collaborators in developing public policy. Prior to […]
Amanda Weinstein, Ph.D.
Dr. Amanda Weinstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Akron. She graduated with a PhD in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics from The Ohio State University. As the C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy Graduate Research Associate, she conducted research on regional economic growth and policy issues […]
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Ph.D.
Professor Gamper-Rabindran analyzes public utility commissions, community-centered strategies, and the economic, legal, and political aspects of the renewable energy transition, as well as the economic diversification of fossil-fuel-reliant communities nationally and globally. Her book America’s Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet details how political, financial, and legal institutions entrench fossil fuel dependency, but how efforts […]
Monica Unseld, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Monica E. Unseld, Ph.D, MPH received her doctorate in biology from the University of Louisville in 2008 and her Master’s in public health from Benedictine University in 2018. She has over a decade of experience working in the environmental justice space. She believes that data can be a powerful tool for justice and recently founded […]
Heather M. Stephens, Ph.D.
Heather M. Stephens is an Associate Professor in Resource Economics and Management and a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Regional Research Institute (RRI) at West Virginia University. Her research is focused on examining issues related to regional economic development and the differences in the impact of policies across regions. Her current and past research has […]
John Russo, Ph.D.
John Russo is a visiting scholar at Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is professor emeritus at Youngstown State University where he served as the Coordinator of the Labor Studies Program in the Warren P. Williamson College of Business Administration and co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies. He has written […]
Mark Paul, Ph.D.
Mark Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. He’s a political economist, and spends most of his time thinking about inequality and the climate crisis. Currently, Dr. Paul is working on a book […]
Nick Muller, Ph.D.
In July, 2017 Nick Muller joined the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University as the Lester and Judith Lave Associate Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he was on the faculty at Middlebury College since the fall of 2007. Nick joined […]
Matt Mehalik, Ph.D.
Matt serves as Executive Director of the Breathe Project, a coalition of local residents, environmental advocates, public health professionals and academics advocating for healthier air for the Pittsburgh region. From 2007 – 2016, he served as Program Director, Sustainable Pittsburgh, where he created, Champions for Sustainability. Matt teaches environmental policy and community resiliency courses at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University […]