Her specialty is labor economics and her research interests include the causes and consequences of labor market inequality and the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment. From August 2015-December 2016, she served as Senior Economist for Labor, Education and Welfare for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where her portfolio included competition policy as it relates to the labor market. Previously she was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Miami, and she has also held visiting faculty positions at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Berkeley. She received a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia, an MA in International Relations from Yale University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.