Emily Garr Senior Research Assitant,
Metropolitan Policy Program
Emily Garr is a senior research assistant whose work primarily focuses on the spatial distribution of low-income work and workers in metropolitan areas. Prior to joining Brookings, Emily spent one year at the Economic Policy Institute as a research assistant for the The State of Working America 2008/09. In 2007 she completed a 2 year Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico, where she profiled Mexico City's growing service sector workforce. Her areas of interest include employment, inequality, urbanization, and migration, with emphasis on the service sector. She holds a Master’s in Urban Studies from El Colegio de México and a B.A. from Emerson College.