Felicia Wong
Felicia came to the Institute from the Democracy Alliance, and previously ran operations and product development at a venture-funded education services company. Her public service includes a White House Fellowship in the Office of the Attorney General and a political appointment in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation on the role of race and framing in K-12 public education politics received the 2000 American Political Science Association award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
Felicia Wong in the News
New Rules, New Politics, Boston Review
How to Fix Corruption: Curb Corporate Power, Politico
Republicans for Redistribution, New York Times
The Emerging Worldview: How New Progressivism Is Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Measured conventionally, very little about today’s politics makes sense. Many attempts to explain the chaos point to political partisanship or regional animosity, but we believe that the chaos is a sign of something deeper: the death of one worldview and the ascent of another. The neoliberal ideal—that markets would create both economic and political freedom
- Published in Publications, Report
Progressing Ahead in 2019
Friday, 13 September 2019
Summers are never slow at Roosevelt, and now we’re gearing up for an even busier fall. At the top of our to-do list is explaining how and why the public sector must make big investments to tackle our nation’s toughest challenges; promoting our ideas to influence the Democratic presidential debate; and welcoming two new fellows
- Published in Blog, Economy & Growth, Health Care, Politics
Economic Policy after the Midterms—What’s Next for a Progressive Agenda?
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
In today’s chaotic political environment, it’s hard to have a serious debate about economic policy, despite its deep and real impact on people’s lives. But we seem to be at a turning point as Americans look for credible answers to the economic insecurity so many of us feel. On November 13, join Roosevelt President and
- Published in Events, homepage-slider, Past
Starting the Conversation: The Economics of a Universal Basic Income
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Our colleagues at the Roosevelt Institute, together with the Levy Institute, just published an exciting new paper entitled, “Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of a Universal Basic Income.” The paper takes a major step forward in answering an important question: How would a massive federal spending program like a “universal basic income” (UBI) affect economic growth
- Published in Economy & Growth
Rewrite the Racial Rules: Building an Inclusive American Economy
Monday, 06 June 2016
Rewrite the Racial Rules: Building an Inclusive American Economy argues that, in order to understand racial and economic inequality among black Americans, we must acknowledge the racial rules that undergird our economy and society. Those rules—laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices—are the driving force behind the patently unequal life chances and opportunities for too many individuals. In
- Published in Publications, Report
