Heather Boushey previously was the president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
12 Facts About Heather Boushey
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Heather Boushey has worked as an economist at the Center for American Progress and the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.
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Heather Boushey was born in Seattle and grew up in Mukilteo, Washington.
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Heather Boushey earned her bachelor's degree from Hampshire College and her Ph.
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Heather Boushey's work focuses on the relation between inequality and economic growth.
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Heather Boushey previously served as an economist for the Center for American Progress, the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and the Economic Policy Institute.
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Heather Boushey currently sits on the board of the Opportunity Institute and is an associate editor of Feminist Economics and a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research.
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Heather Boushey has testified before the US Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 welfare reform.
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Heather Boushey was announced as chief economist on the Clinton-Kaine transition following the Democratic National Convention in July 2016.
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Heather Boushey is the author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict and a co-editor of After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality, a volume of 22 essays about how to integrate inequality into economic thinking.
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Shortly after Biden's victory in November 2020, it was announced that Heather Boushey would serve as a member of Biden's Council of Economic Advisers.
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On March 31,2007, Heather Boushey married Todd Tucker, formerly research director of the Global Trade Watch division of Public Citizen, who specializes in the legal, economic, and political consequences of trade agreements, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.