Cohort Year 2025-2026

Chiara Chanoi

Chiara Chanoi is a research assistant at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she worked as a research staff associate at Columbia University’s Department of Economics. She also participated in the Archer Fellowship program and…

Sohyeon Hwang

Sohyeon is a Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton University, in the Center for Information Technology Policy. Her research work asks how everyday people can shape the governance of technologies underpinning their social, economic, and political lives. She pursues this by examining…

Ben Zipperer

Ben Zipperer joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2016. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. He has published research in The Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and…

Alexandra Mateescu

Alexandra Mateescu is a researcher with Data & Society’s Labor Futures program, where she has worked for the last decade on producing in-depth qualitative research, curating accessible public resources and convening workshops, and contributing to efforts to strengthen worker rights…

Júlia Martins Rodrigues

Júlia Martins Rodrigues, PhD, is a research associate at the University of Colorado Boulder and serves as a governor-appointed commissioner on Employee Ownership at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade. Her areas of expertise include cooperative law,…