Mary Lopez
Fellowship year
2023-24 - Occidental College - Study 12
Research Affiliate year
2024-25 - Occidental College
Mary Lopez was the 2023-24 CORE Fellow at CASBS. As a research affiliate, she will continue working on CORE Econ’s newest introductory economics e-book, Understanding the Economy. This book aims to enhance students' engagement with economics by relating it to their lived experiences. It emphasizes critical thinking, data skills, and inclusive teaching methods, focusing on societal issues most important to students. The goal is to make economics more attractive and accessible to a diverse range of students, encouraging them to develop new ideas and potentially reshape the field.
Lopez is a professor of economics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her research specializes in immigration and immigration policy, Latino entrepreneurship, and economic inequality. She is also a policy expert at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative. Lopez is a member of the American Society for Hispanic Economists and the American Economic Association and a board member of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.
For more information about her research, please visit her website: https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/mary-j-lopez