Leah Brooks is the Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies and Associate Professor in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Her research on political economy as well as public and urban economics has been published in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics and the American Economic Journal of Applied Economics. She graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, and a PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2005. Before arriving at George Washington University, she taught economics at the University of Toronto and McGill University, and served as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Jenny Schuetz is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has published extensively about housing policy, land use regulation, urban amenities, and neighborhood change. Jenny received a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Master’s in City Planning from M.I.T., and a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Economics and Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. Jenny previously served as a Principal Economist in the Division of Consumer and Community Affairs at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She also taught at the University of Southern California and at City College of New York, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
Stan Veuger is a Senior Fellow in economics at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a fellow at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and at Tilburg University. His research has been published in peer-reviewed economic journals, such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has also published commentary in the nation’s top newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. In the Spring of 2022, he was the Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Previously, Stan was a visiting lecturer at Harvard. He received his AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.