Mark G. Sheppard is a research assistant with the Stone Center of Socio-Economic Inequality, working on the GC Wealth Project. Previously, Sheppard was a fellow in Data Visualization at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, and a research assistant with the Stone Center for Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. Sheppard is a Specialist, commissioning as Lieutenant, with the U.S. National Guard and previously worked as an analyst in the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, California State Senate, and other local municipalities.
Sheppard is an inequality scholar and an Economics PhD student at City University of New York, Graduate Center. Sheppard holds a Bachelors of Arts in Honors Legal Studies, with a minor Public Policy, from U.C. Berkeley, a Masters of Arts in Political Economics from Georgetown University, and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy.
The research of Mark Sheppard focuses primarily on welfare policy, public finance, income variance, and wealth inequality. However, in addition Sheppard is an award-winning photojournalist, whose work also centers on social inequality. Sheppard often teaches courses within economic statistics. However, Sheppard specializes in communicating research, and has a rich background in new media, graphic/web design & data visualization. Shown below are a limited gallery of documentary work focused on homelessness, international poverty, and breast cancer.
