Regina Hall Instagram – This week my #WCW highlights Cecilia Rouse. Cecilia is a well-known labor economist, former @WhiteHouse economic adviser under both the Clinton and Obama administration, and current dean of the @Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. After being encouraged by her mother, to take an economics course as a freshman in college, which came during a national spike in unemployment, Cecilia found herself drawn to study the labor market in all of its dimensions, and “the ways we can tear down barriers to job growth and make it easier for people to find long-lasting economic security.” Cecilia is now nominated by President elect Biden to chair the Council of Economic Advisers. As a part of the transition team, Cecilia, will make history as the first Black chair of the council, taking position during a sagging recovery from a pandemic recession, when millions of Americans have been out of work since the virus first surged through the United States. A leading expert on core labor market issues as well as those in the field of education, economic policy has been the avenue through which Rouse has worked to make a difference. [The pandemic] is a “devastating crisis, but also an opportunity to build a better economy in its wake — an economy that works for everyone, brings fulfilling job opportunities, and leaves no one to fall through the cracks.”