Our Contributors
Meet the People Who Made the Book Possible
Brief Essays on the Best Ideas to Build Wealth — for Everyone, was edited by Ray Boshara of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Ida Rademacher of the Financial Security Program at the Aspen Institute. The book, published in September 2021, includes original essays from a diverse spectrum of social, financial and policy innovators–all committed to building savings, wealth and ownership in the U.S. inclusively.
Fenaba R. Addo
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Bob Annibale
University of London/SOAS
Karen Biddle Andres
Aspen Institute
Roland M. Attenborough
Roland M. Attenborough, Inc.
Peter Barnes
Entrepreneur and writer
Rachel Black
Aspen Institute
Angela Glover Blackwell
PolicyLink
Joseph C. Blasi
Rutgers University
Mark Blyth
Brown University
Janet Boguslaw
Brandeis University
Ray Boshara
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Raphael Bostic
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
James Bullard
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
William J. (Bill) Bynum
HOPE
Kevin Carey
New America
Ellis Carr
Capital Impact Partners
Oren Cass
American Compass
Mariko Chang
Mariko Chang Consulting
José Cisneros
City and County of San Francisco
Margaret M. Clancy
Washington University in St. Louis
Wole Coaxum
Mobility Capital Finance
Michael Collins
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Reid Cramer
New America
Stephanie J. Creary
University of Pennsylvania
William A. Darity, Jr.
Duke University
Ross DeVol
Heartland Forward
Karen Dynan
Harvard University
Karen Edwards
Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition
Kathryn Edwards
RAND Corporation
William Elliott III
University of Michigan
Yakov Feygin
Berggruen Institute
Christy Finsel
Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition
Timothy Flacke
Commonwealth
Dr. Helene Gayle
Chicago Community Trust
Nanette Goodman
Syracuse University & National Disability Institute
Salah Goss
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
Mark Greene
SafetyNet
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
Mae Watson Grote
Change Machine
John W. Haines
Mercy Corps
Darrick Hamilton
New School
Bradley Hardy
Georgetown University
Patrick T. Harker
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Ted Howard
Democracy Collaborative
Brent Howell
Opportunity Finance Network
Jin Huang
St. Louis University
David C. John
Brookings Institution & AARP
Jenny L. Jones
Clark Atlantic University
Ianna Kachoris
Chicago Community Trust
Neel Kashkari
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ana Hernández Kent
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Kilolo Kijakazi
(formerly Urban Institute)
Joyce Klein
Aspen Institute
Douglas L. Kruse
Rutgers University
Chirag Lala
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Hanlin Li
Northwestern University
Eric Lonergan
Author
Phillip Longman
Open Markets Institute
Barry C. Lynn
Open Markets Institute
Diego Martinez
Abbott
Mariana Mazzucato
University College London
Heather McCulloch
Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap
Signe-Mary McKernan
Urban Institute
Sarah McKinley
Democracy Collaborative
Brenden McKinney
McKinsey & Co.
Lisa Mensah
Opportunity Finance Network
Jonathan Morduch
New York University
Michael Morris
National Disability Institute
Kirsten Mullen
Artefactual
Karama Neal, Ph.D.
(formerly Southern Bankcorp)
Jerry Nemorin
LendStreet
Nick Noel
McKinsey & Co.
Aisha Nyandoro, Ph.D.
Springboard to Opportunities
Romy F. Parzick
Vault
Vanessa G. Perry
George Washington University
Duwain Pinder
McKinsey & Co.
Katharina Pistor
Columbia University
Fabian T. Pfeffer
University of Michigan
José A. Quiñonez
Mission Asset Fund
José Quiñonez
Partners for Rural Transformation
Ida Rademacher
Aspen Institute
Janneke Ratcliffe
Urban Institute
Erika Rickard
Pew Charitable Trusts
Lowell R. Ricketts
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
John W. Rogers, Jr.
Ariel Investments
Stephen Roll
Social Policy Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
Safia Sayed
(formerly Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center)
Luisa Scarcella
University of Antwerp
Rachel Schneider
Canary
Allison Schrager
Manhattan Institute
David Shideler
Heartland Forward
Robert Shiller
Yale University
Margaret S. Sherraden
Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Sherraden
Washington University in St. Louis
Ed Sivak
HOPE
Eugene Steuerle
Urban Institute
Shelley Stewart
McKinsey & Co.
Anne Stuhldreher
City and County of San Francisco
Jennifer Tescher
Financial Health Network
Nicholas Vincent
Northwestern University
Frederick F. Wherry
Princeton University
Bradford Wilcox
University of Virginia
Scott Winship
American Enterprise Institute
Dafina Williams
Opportunity Finance Network
Deborah Winshel
Harvard Business School
Abigail Wozniak
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Naomi Zewde
CUNY