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Funded through a $5 million donation from the James M. & Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the Stone Center will take a dynamic, multidimensional view of inequality that studies intergenerational mobility and wealth inequality around the globe.

“Large-scale problems, such as environmental ones, require interdisciplinary solutions. The adaptability of my public policy degree is preparing me to tackle those challenges."

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation has made a generous $5 million gift to the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy to establish the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility.

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world worked to create public health protocols to protect people from the spread of the virus.

"Before coming to Harris, I had the mindset of an activist...I was not always considering limitations in available resources and other stakeholders’ interests in policy design. Harris helped me navigate that understanding.”

"I would like to use data science to update grand strategy at the executive level."