Ellora Derenoncourt is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a member of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Economics, and the founding director of the Program for Research on Inequality at Princeton Economics. She works on labor economics, economic history, and the study of inequality. Recently she has studied the northern backlash against the Great Migration and ensuing declines in Black upward mobility and the role of federal minimum wage policy in racial earnings convergence during the Civil Rights Era. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2019.

Dr. Eric Asare is a skilled economist with a focus on agricultural and applied economics. He holds a doctorate in his profession and is known for his expertise in applied policy, technology adoption, and environmental and resource economics. He has also published more than ten articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the Chief Strategist and Head of Research for Breman-Asare Holdings Inc. and the founder and chairman of the company. Dr. Asare’s leadership and extensive knowledge continue to shape the field of economics and drive the success of his organization.

Meet Dr. Fafanyo Asiseh, an Associate Professor of Economics at North Carolina A&T State University since 2013. Her research focuses on health economics, development economics, and economics of gender, and has been published in journals like the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy and Journal of Black Political Economy. Dr. Asiseh has also presented her work at various conferences. She is a passionate advocate for women in economics and pipeline issues, as well as for families and children with special needs. She enjoys spending quality time with her family and kids in her free time.

Gary Hoover is the Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is also a professor of economics. Dr. Hoover is an affiliate professor of law.

From 2015 until 2020 he was a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and the Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Hoover received his PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. Since then, he has published numerous scholarly research papers, book chapters, and reviews on topics concerning income redistribution/poverty, political economy, and ethics in the economics profession. Dr. Hoover is the co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. From 2022 to 2023 he was the president the Sothern Economic Association. He is on the advisory board of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. He is also on the selection committee for the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award.

Dr. Hoover is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hoover is a network member at the Center for Economic Studies & ifo Institute in Munich, Germany. He has also been a guest professor at the Universities of Hannover and Konstanz in Germany, the University of Vienna in Austria and X’ian University in China.

Gary Lyn is a senior economist at Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Trade and Quantitative Studies Section. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received a PhD in Economics at Penn State University, and Masters and Bachelors degree from the University of the West Indies Jamaica. Gary’s research can be categorized into two main strands: the first is primarily in international economics but also overlaps with economic geography; and the second is at the intersection of international economics, economic geography and environmental economics.

Gerald Daniels is an Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program at Howard University. His primary research interests are in Macroeconomics, Economics of Inequality, Economic Growth, and Applied Econometrics. Also, he has a considerable interest in Big Data Analytics. His current research focuses on various topics revolving around student loan debt and consumer/household finances.

Gregory N. Price, Ph.D is the JP Morgan Chase Professor, Minority and Emerging Business II, in the Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans. His previous appointments include Charles E. Merrill Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Morehouse College, Director of the Mississippi Urban Research Center, Professor of Economics, Jackson State University, and Economics Program Director, National Science Foundation. He is currently the editor of the Review of Black Political Economy, and past President of the National Economic Association. An applied econometrician and theorist, his current research efforts are in economic stratification, African economic development, the causes and consequences of Entrepreneurship/Slavery. His research has been published in a wide variety of journals such as Economics and Human Biology, Review of Black Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, Industrial and Labor Relations, Social Science Quarterly, and African Development Review.

James Peoples is Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as President of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the Allied Social Sciences Association and is currently Secretary of TPUG. He is also an editorial board member of Transport Policy as well as the series editor of Advances in Airline Economics. His current research interests include analysis of production efficiency for different modes of freight transportation.