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Appendix B: Biographies of Planning Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 103-110

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From page 103...
... She has received multiple awards including The William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section. Bloome has a Ph.D.
From page 104...
... Brown has authored numerous articles in leading sociology, population health and health policy journals, and his research contributions have been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. He is currently working on several projects that address fundamental questions about racial stratification by conceptualizing, measuring, and mapping structural racism, as well as quantifying its impact on the life chances.
From page 105...
... Darity's research focuses on inequality by race, class, and ethnicity; stratification economics; schooling and the racial achievement gap; North-South theories of trade and development; skin shade and labor market outcomes; the economics of reparations; the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution; the history of economics; and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. Darity has a Ph.D.
From page 106...
... Greenstein was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to serve on the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform and headed the part of President Obama's transition team that dealt with the federal budget. His work has focused on the federal budget and programs and policies affecting people with low or modest incomes, on which he has written extensively.
From page 107...
... is Edward Ames Edmonds professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of sociology, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, faculty fellow at the Center for Population Health Sciences, director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, co-editor of Pathways Magazine, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research addresses such topics as trends in inequality, poverty, and mobility in the United States; new approaches to reducing poverty and increasing mobility; and new data infrastructures for monitoring trends and crises and evaluating interventions.
From page 108...
... Lee is a board member of the Obama Presidency Oral History, a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a senior researcher at AAPI Data, which recently received a $10 million grant to study anti-Asian discrimination and hate. Committed to public engagement, Lee is a contributor for Science and the Brookings Institution, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other media outlets.
From page 109...
... Small has authored numerous books, including Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life. He currently serves as the University of Bremen excellence chair and as a board member of International Network for Social Network Analysis.
From page 110...
... As a quantitative methodologist, she developed Markov chain demography models for genealogical processes, multivariate mixed-effects location-scale models for the interplay of inequality generating process across life stages and generations, population estimation for overlapping generations and kinship network, and weighting methods for reconciling prospective and retrospective mobility estimates.


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