Randy Albelda

Who is Randy Albelda?

Randy Pearl Albelda is an American feminist economist holding a Ph.D. in economics who is an activist for women and children, an author, and an academic. She specialises in poverty and gender issues. Her research interests and specialties include political economy of feminism, gender and race, labor economics, women’s economic status, public policies, economics of taxation, family policies, and poverty.

Albelda became a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston in Economics in 1988. She has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. She became an associate editor for the journal Feminist Economics in 2004, an editorial associate for Dollars & Sense magazine in 1986, and was a co-founder of Academics Working Group on Poverty in Massachusetts in 1995, remaining until 1999.