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Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist Prior to joining FPI in January 1999, James Parrott was Chief Economist and Director of the Bureau of Fiscal and Economic Analysis for the Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for New York City (OSDC). Parrott has also served as Chief Economist for the City of New York's economic policy office under Mayor David N. Dinkins and Executive Assistant to the President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (now UNITE). He received his B.A. in American Studies from Illinois Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. |
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Senior Economist Before joining FPI in September 1998, Trudi Renwick worked as an economist for the Public Utility Law Project and before that she taught economics at Skidmore College. She is the author of Poverty and Single Parent Families: A Study of Minimal Subsistence Household Budgets (Garland Press, 1998). She has written several articles and reports on poverty and income inequality and has testified on numerous occasions before the New York State Public Service Commission. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from American University, her BSFS from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her MA in Ibero-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin. |
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Senior Fellow David Dyssegaard Kallick joined FPI as a Senior Fellow in July 2001 from the Working Families Party where he worked as a policy analyst. He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Preamble Center. From 1989 to 1997, he was Senior Editor and later Editor of Social Policy magazine. His major responsibility at FPI has been as the Coordinator of the Labor Community Advocacy Network to Rebuild New York (LCAN). He is on the steering committees of the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown and Imagine New York, and has been LCAN's representative in the planning of the "Beyond 16 Acres" series of programs. He is a graduate of Yale University. |
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Director of Communications Jo Brill joined FPI in 2006 with the assignment of making FPI’s analytical work accessible to a wider range of potential users. Jo’s experience in state policy includes serving as Director of State Studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, legislative and communications work for two members of the New York State Assembly, work on several campaigns, and policy analysis and advocacy with the League of Women Voters. She established the Budget Reform New York listserve in 2004 and has managed it since. She received her B.A. in mathematics and economics/statistics from Drake University and an M.A. in economics from Cornell University. |
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Research Assistant Brent Kramer, a graduate of the University of Chicago with a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations from Rutgers University, is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he has completed his course work and passed his comprehensive exams. In 2001, he opted for early retirement after nearly 32 years of work as a Field Technician for Verizon and its predecessor companies. At FPI, his responsibilities include the collection and analysis of data on the state and city economies and related issues. He played a major role in the completion of the data analysis for the latest edition of FPI's biennial report on the State Of Working New York. |
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