I’m an associate professor of economics at the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, a member of the Panel of Economic Forecasters of the Wall Street Journal, and co-founder of Impact Analytics, an economic consulting firm. I’m interested in the intersection of foreign direct investment absorption, culture, and growth as well as social mobility, income inequality, and labor economics. I’m a vintage computing aficionado, a huge Beatlemaniac, and a machine learning enthusiast.