Glynn was formerly a Senior Advisor and Director of Women’s Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. She has held fellowships at the Roosevelt Institute, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and elsewhere. Glynn has authored numerous influential publications on women’s economic security, the care economy, and workplace benefits. She has testified before Congress and provided technical assistance to elected officials across all levels of government. Her research has been used in federal and state policy decisions. Frequently cited in leading publications, she has also appeared on MSNBC, PBS, FOX News, and Bloomberg. Glynn is a native of northern California. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Vanderbilt University.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in international development from Washington University in St. Louis and earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

Patrick Oakford is a senior fellow at EPI. He has spent his career working in government and the nonprofit sector focused on labor and economic policy. Most recently, he served in the Biden-Harris administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he helped manage the department’s regulatory agenda and forward-looking policy development, including on issues related to AI. Previously, Patrick was a policy advisor in the Department’s Office of the Chief Economist during the Obama-Biden administration, senior policy advisor in the Executive Chamber of the Governor of New York, and conducted research at the Center for American Progress and with the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, among other organizations.

Education:

M.Sc., Migration Studies, University of Oxford

B.S., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Biography
Lynn Rhinehart is a senior fellow at EPI, where she works on labor and employment policy with a focus on unions and collective bargaining. Rhinehart returns to EPI after serving in the Biden administration as a senior counselor to the Secretary of Labor and Acting Secretary of Labor, advising them on issues relating to unions, collective bargaining, and labor policy, including the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment (vice-chaired by the Secretary of Labor).

Previously, Rhinehart was general counsel of the AFL-CIO from 2009 until July 2018. She joined the legal staff at the AFL-CIO as an associate general counsel in 1996. While at the AFL-CIO, she was the executive director of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC), a national organization of 2,000 union-side labor lawyers in law firms and legal departments. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Rhinehart clerked for the Honorable Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor. Rhinehart has authored publications on enforcement of federal workplace safety laws, the contingent workforce, and other topics. 

Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., University of Michigan

Labor economics • Stratification economics • Child poverty and well-being • Retirement security and public finance • Human development and capabilities

Biography

Ismael Cid-Martinez is an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE). He studies economic inequality and well-being within the frameworks of stratification economics, human development, and political economy. Cid-Martinez has co-authored and published peer-reviewed research on child poverty and welfare, intergroup disparities, retirement security and public finance, and the capability approach.

Prior to joining EPI, Cid-Martinez served as a senior policy analyst for the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, where he authored reports on economic inequality and racial and ethnic disparities in the labor market and the broader economy. Before this, he worked for UNICEF’s Data & Analytics unit and for UNICEF regional and country offices in Latin America and West Africa. He also served as a research associate for the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is currently a PhD candidate at The New School for Social Research.

Education

M.Phil., Economics, The New School for Social Research