M.V. Lee Badgett

M. V. Lee Badgett has twenty-five years of experience connecting cutting-edge research with the policy and community locations that need those findings. She is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

She is also Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute. Her publications include When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage and Money, Myths, and Change:

The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men.