Amalie Zinn

Doctoral Research Assistant

Amalie Zinn is a doctoral student in Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy. Her research interests are at the intersection of housing finance and racial wealth equity, with a focus on intergenerational wealth transmissions. Her work also aims to consider how building trust, cultural competency, and relationships can reduce barriers to accessing credit, capital, and opportunity across demographic groups. When it comes to solutions, Zinn enjoys finding areas where equity-advancing public policy can breed efficiency and growth, and vice versa. One of her goals as a scholar is to make rigorous research accessible to a wide variety of audiences, from experts, to policymakers, to advocates.

Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, Amalie was a researcher in the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center in Washington, DC, where she studied racial equity in the mortgage market, the racial wealth gap, disparities in access to credit and capital, housing supply, and inherited assets. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and French and had a minor in public policy.