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“My personal and professional goal is to always approach policy with a lens on equity and justice.”

Damon Jones, associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, recently began a year-long term as a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

An enormous data collection project under way at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy will bring together billions of records to essentially change the way poverty in the United States is understood.

“I wanted to do research that was immediately and practically beneficial, and Harris and the MACRM program—grounded in that mission—have allowed me to do exactly that.”

The Richard P. Taub Thesis Prize, created in 2018, is awarded annually to three undergraduate Public Policy Studies students who have done original and extensive research for the BA thesis project, the major’s capstone experience. 

For Ta-Nehisi Coates, writing is a way of telling the truth boldly—without coddling the reader, but not without offering hope.

After Harris, Inema aspires to work in international development, with a particular focus on improving social equity.

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