McCourt Welcomes New Faculty to the Hilltop
The McCourt School is excited to welcome six new faculty members in the fall of 2021, including experts in labor economics, faith and justice, social policy, environmental justice, criminal justice and conflict resolution.
Gaël Giraud, an economist and a Jesuit who also serves as the director of the Georgetown Environmental Justice Program.
Bradley Hardy (MPP’04), a labor economist whose research interests include economic instability, intergenerational mobility, poverty policy, racial economic inequality and socio-economic outcomes.
Rachel Milner Gillers joins the McCourt faculty and will continue to lead Georgetown’s Conflict Transformation Lab and teach Negotiation & Conflict Management in the spring.
Krista Ruffini, comes to McCourt from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve’s Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute, where she studied how government policies affect labor market, education and health outcomes.
Jasmine Tyler, a former adjunct professor at McCourt, joins our full time faculty and will also lead McCourt’s Policy Innovation Lab and support the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion work.
Jim Wallis, founder of the Christian social justice organization Sojourners, joins the McCourt School as the inaugural Chair in Faith and Justice.