CEPR commemorated 20 years as “a professional thorn in the side of orthodoxy” with a celebration featuring food, drink, and a special message from CEPR Board member Danny Glover.
While CEPR has been providing accessible, fact-based research that explains economic concepts over the last 20 years, on October 29th we looked ahead to the future.
Program
6:30 pm – Event open, with music by Hassan El-Tayyab
7:30 to 8:30 pm – Hear from our featured speakers
9:00 pm – Close
The Host Committee
- Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Annie Bird, Executive Director, Guatemala Human Rights Commission
- Laura Carlsen, Director, Americas Program, Center for International Policy
- Ha-Joon Chang, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
- Danny Glover, CEPR Board Member, Actor, and Activist
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editorial Director & Publisher, The Nation
- Stephanie Kelton, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Stony Brook University
- Lance Lindblom, [Retired] President & CEO, Trustee, The Nathan Cummings Foundation
Speakers
Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr., Representative from Georgia
Rep. Ro Khanna, Representative from California
Rep. Mark Pocan, Representative from Wisconsin
Featured Speaker: Sandra Black, Professor, Columbia University
Sandra E. Black is Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She served as a Member of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from August 2015-January 2017.