Laura Beamer

Laura is the Project Lead on Higher Education Finance at the Jain Family Institute. She completed her Masters Degree in International Finance and Economic Policy at Columbia University SIPA. Laura has produced extensive tools for understanding and comparing existing higher education financing models and the projected impacts of ISAs, among other options. She is the lead research of JFI's ongoing "Geography of Higher Education" project, which studies inequalities in access to higher ed in the United States. Laura grew up in Atlanta, GA.