Darrick Hamilton

Darrick Hamilton is the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy and a university professor at The New School. In addition, he is the founding director of The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy.

Hamilton is a pioneer and internationally recognized scholar in the field of stratification economics, which fuses social science methods to examine the causes, consequences, and remedies of racial, gender, ethnic, tribal, and nativity inequality in education, economic, and health outcomes. He has been involved in crafting policy proposals, such as Baby Bonds and a Federal Job Guarantee, which have garnered a great deal of media attention and served as inspirations for legislative proposals at the federal, state, and local levels. Hamilton is a graduate of Oberlin College and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina. Before joining The New School, he was the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University.