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Sep
20 (PDT)
Melissa Mahoney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics at University of North Carolina Asheville
Melissa Mahoney is an economist specializing in the economics of well-being, public finance, and public K-12 education. Most recently, her professional efforts focused on policy issues related to gender equality, economic vulnerability, human resilience and human development while working at the United Nations in New York.
Leah Mathews, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Economics at University of North Carolina Asheville
Dr. Mathews believes in the power of economic literacy to change lives and minds. She centers lived experience in her courses and embraces the power of storytelling and narrative as an essential complement to quantitative approaches that predominate in economics. Dr. Mathews routinely uses deep listening of popular music in her classroom as a method for engaging students in discussion of challenging topics and to humanize economic issues. Her work in the classroom has been recognized with several awards.
