Michelle Holder, Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College

Economist Michelle Holder is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and former President & CEO, Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining the John Jay faculty, she worked professionally as an economist for a decade in both the nonprofit and government sectors. Her research focuses on the black community and women in the American labor market. Holder was cited as one of 19 black economists to watch by Fortune Magazine in June 2020, and was recently cited as an expert on worker power by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her first book, African American Men and the Labor Market, was released from Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.