Assistant Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility About Gerardo Espinal Franco Gerardo "Gerry" Espinal Franco is the Assistant Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility. In this role, Gerardo handles myriad responsibilities including project management, marketing, and communications. He comprehensively oversees the Center's operations, fostering initiatives such as conferences, summer schools, and working groups. He generates website content, manages recruitment, and organizes the production of "The Inequality Podcast." Prior to joining the center, Gerardo was a Captain in the Marine Corps, where he served as a Manpower Officer from 2018 to 2023. In his first duty station in Okinawa, Japan, his work centered on crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic and the reactivation and restructuring of logistical units. After three years abroad, he was assigned to Marine Corps Installations Command East in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. There, he served as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer overseeing managerial processes for six installations. Before that, he worked as a high school teacher at YES Prep Southeast in Houston for two years, where he taught world geography, world history, and rhetoric. Gerardo completed his bachelor’s degree in public relations and philosophy from the University of Houston in 2014. He is also a University of Chicago alumnus earning an MA in Humanities with a concentration in philosophy in 2015. Contact Information Room 3025-17 gespinalfranco@uchicago.edu Recent News More news Student Profile: Carrie Collins, MPP Class of 2024 Tue., April 30, 2024 Alumni Profile: Eloísa Ávila-Uribe, MACRM’23 Fri., April 26, 2024 Ariel Kalil: Multigenerational households are key to better support for kids of single mothers Thu., April 25, 2024 Upcoming Events More events Harris Reunion Weekend 2024 Fri., May 03, 2024 | 12:00 PM 1307 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60613 United States Data and Policy Summer Scholars Program (DPSS): Deep-Dive Conversation with Jose Macias and Alexandra Sobczynski Mon., May 06, 2024 | 7:30 PM International Policy Action Lab Mini Class with Austin Wright Tue., May 07, 2024 | 6:00 AM