Hi, I’m Kendall Stephenson.

I’m a PhD candidate in Economics at Colorado State University

I currently work as a Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst at the Colorado Fiscal Institute, a tax policy nonprofit in Denver. I will join the Fashion Institute of Technology (State University of New York) as an Assistant Professor of Economics in August. Before joining Colorado State, I served as senior economist for the New York City Council, supporting budget negotiations and staffing legislative committees. Prior to that I completed my MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research.

My primary research is focused on Public Finance, Political Economy, Urban/Regional, and Labor. In general, my academic work seeks to explain a number of contemporary and historical issues stemming from the American property tax. I also collaborate with colleagues outside of Economics, including recent interdisciplinary work with industrial organizational psychologists on questions pertaining to U.S. labor and employment relations.

I’ve had the pleasure of teaching a number of courses at Colorado State University, including two years as an instructor of record teaching both introductory and upper-division courses. I recently designed a new curriculum for an Economics of Social Issues course, which I taught to an exciting group of (mostly) first-semester undergrads. Feel free to reach out to me below or at kendall.stephenson@colostate.edu.