LEADERSHIP & STAFF
founder-directors
Elisabeth
Jacobs
Jal Mehta
staff
Ben
Ansell
Lydia
Bean
Jane
Gingrich
David
J. Harding
Matissa
Hollister
Joel
Horwich
Tomás
Roberto
Jiménez
Matthew
Kaliner
Michal
Kurlaender
Jason
Lakin
Therese
Leung
Elizabeth
Oltmans
Ananat
Judy
Scott-Clayton
Patrick
Sharkey
Adam
Thomas
Vesla
Mae Weaver
Christopher
Wimer
Scott
Winship
Therese Leung is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Harvard and a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. She is currently conducting research on wealth inequality and gender and on the growth of single motherhood in the United States. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wellesley College with her B.A. in Mathematics. Upon graduation, she worked as a strategy consultant for L.E.K. Consulting, but eventually left to obtain her Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, where she won the Women and Public Policy Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis. She was also the co-founder of the nation’s first journal dedicated to women and public policy, Women's Policy Journal of Harvard University. She then worked as a fiscal policy analyst in the budget office of the White House, where she helped develop the proposed budget for federal low-income social service programs. She is the senior editor at the Asian American Policy Review and was awarded honorary early membership to the Mathematical Association of America in 1996.