INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

By Ali Zaidi, Former U.S. National Climate Advisor and Head of the White House Climate Policy Office

Steven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Professor of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Nobel Laureate; and Former U.S. Secretary of Energy.

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Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, and Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

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Ruha Benjamin, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

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Jennifer Richeson, the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception & Communication Lab at Yale University, and IPR Faculty Adjunct

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Raj Chetty, the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics and Director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University

Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, spoke on "Staying Resolute in the Battle Against Inflation."

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Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing spoke on the importance of children’s health, both mental and physical, to their long-term academic and labor outcomes. 

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Matthew Desmond, the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, shared as part of the IPR@50 conference some of the latest results from his Eviction Lab, which created the first-ever national database of eviction records. 

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Jocelyn Samuels, the executive director of the LGBT-focused Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law, spoke about how social science research can have an impact on LGBT health and policy issues. 

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Arthur C. Brooks, former president of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, discussed how political polarization threatens not only the public discourse but America’s social fabric. 

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Fay Lomax Cook, then-assistant director of the National Science Foundation and IPR fellow and former director, spoke about the NSF’s “10 Big Ideas” regarding the future of work in America, including dealing with data collection, climate change, and advances in genetic science. 

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In her book, $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, sociologist Kathryn Edin illuminates a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor.

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