Amalie Zinn is a doctoral student in Public Policy and Management at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, where her research sits at the intersection of housing finance, household wealth, and racial equity. She’s particularly interested in how intergenerational wealth transfers shape access to homeownership, and in the role that trust, relationships, and community values play in how people pursue and access credit and capital. She’s also committed to making rigorous research legible to policymakers, practitioners, and community members alike.

 

Before beginning her doctorate, she spent several years as a researcher in the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where her work touched on heirs’ property, trust in financial systems, and disparities in homeownership and access to credit. She also served as the lead writer on upward mobility for Urban’s Housing Matters blog. Her work has been published in Housing Policy Debate.

 

Zinn graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied economics and French with a minor in Public Policy.