Dr. Michelle Holder, co-author of Political Economy of Racism: The Persistence of Anti-Blackness in the US (with Dr. Jeannette Wicks-Lim from the University of Massachusetts), will discuss inequality in the American labor market.
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Holder is an associate professor of economics at John Jay and a distinguished senior fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining John Jay, she worked as an applied economist for a decade in both the nonprofit and government sectors. Holder's research focuses on the Black community and women of color in the American labor market and her economic policy reports have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Amsterdam News, El Diario and Dollars & Sense magazine. She has also appeared on, or been quoted in, media outlets such as CNN, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Reuters, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, Black News Channel, Al Jazeera-English, Marketplace, Bloomberg.com and Vox.com. Holder was also a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research and was named one of 19 Black economists to watch by Fortune Magazine.
Holder's additional publications include African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession and Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy, co-authored with Alan Aja. She received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from The New School for Social Research, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fordham University.
