Dionissi Aliprantis
Senior Research Economist and Program on Economic Inclusion Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Founding Director, The Math Movement
Dionissi Aliprantis is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Director of its Program on Economic Inclusion. His research has focused on identifying neighborhood effects, understanding how landlords and wealth influence neighborhood sorting, quantifying the factors contributing to the racial wealth gap, and studying the implications of neighborhood formation for the geographic distribution of opportunity.
Aliprantis has also been involved with math education programs since 2011. As Founding Director of The Math Movement, he helps to run its summer camps and enrichment programs. This program supports local public schools, using math to build community and foster creativity among middle and high school students.
Aliprantis received a B.S. in mathematics and a B.A. in economics and Spanish from Indiana University in 2004, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010.