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Kate Bahn is the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Research at IWPR. Prior to joining IWPR, Kate served as the director of research at WorkRise, a research-to-action network hosted by the Urban Institute, and as a chief economist and the director of labor market policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. She was also an economist at the Center for American Progress and served as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. Her research areas include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market; care work; and monopsonistic labor markets. Bahn has testified before Congress, and her commentary has been featured on Bloomberg, Marketplace, NPR, MSNBC/MSNOW, the Associated Press, and other media outlets. She received her bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and her doctorate in economics from The New School for Social Research.