Kate Fairley is a predoctoral research fellow with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and is currently working on her Master of Arts in Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Victoria. Kate’s research focus is at the intersection of labor, public, and urban economics where she studies discrimination and disparities in the labor and housing markets. She is currently working under Dr. Rebecca Diamond at Stanford, studying the effects of family proximity on labor market outcomes. She has previously worked on projects relating to economic development on Indigenous Reserves, the long-term effects on children of maternity leave reforms, and police response to racially-motivated protests. Kate currently holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.