Dr. Robynn Cox is an assistant professor in the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, and a faculty affiliate at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. She was selected as a 2018-2019 visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’ Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute (OIGI), and Kelso Fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. Her research interests include the fields of crime, health, labor, housing, and social and racial inequality. Her research has primarily focused on understanding the social and economic consequences of mass incarceration. In addition to the Federal Reserve and Rutgers University, Cox’s research has been supported by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Russell Sage Foundation, the NIA, the USDA Food and Nutrition Services, and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research. Prior to her appointment at USC, Cox was an assistant professor at Spelman College and a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Economics at Duke University. She earned her master’s degree and doctorate in economics from Georgia State University, where she was awarded the Andrew Young Fellowship. Cox completed her undergraduate studies at Duke University, where she obtained a dual bachelor’s in economics and Spanish and Latin American studies.