Therese Leung

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Therese Leung graduated with her BA in Mathematics from Wellesley in 1998. After college, she worked as a management consultant before obtaining her Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 2001. She finally left Boston to work as a fiscal policy analyst in the White House Budget Office in Washington, DC where she helped develop President Bush's budget proposals for federal low-income economic assistance and social service programs. She's happy to return back to Cambridge, although she admits missing the exciting and tumultuous world of politics sometimes. Therese is one of the founders of the Women's Policy Journal of Harvard and she tries to stay as politically involved in women's advocacy organizations as possible. She is currently working on her dissertation, a re-examination of the motherhood wage penalty.

03/04/2008

Research Interests

gender wage inequality; public policy; work/family and organizations

Contact

617-496-5794 (FAX)

Traveling Scholar (currently in Washington, DC)