Amanda Kass (she/her/hers)

Amanda is the research director at Good Jobs First. Her research concerns public finance (with a subspecialty in public pensions), housing markets, urban governance, and financialization. Her long-term research agenda addresses the ways in which finance shapes and is shaped by geographies of economic and racial inequality, particularly at the local scale. A recent research project examined how cities are using the federal State and Local Fiscal Recovery Aid they were allocated as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.  With support from the the Joyce Foundation she and her collaborator investigated how cities used ARPA funds to address violent crime (the project website is here). 

She has a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois-Chicago, a MA in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Geography and International Studies from The Ohio State University.  

CV (updated, 2025) available here.

Email: amanda.kass [at] gmail [dot] com

Bluesky: @akass.bsky.social