Shawn Powers joined J-PAL in 2011 and manages the Education and Labor Markets programs, which include J-PAL's Post-Primary Education Initiative and Youth Initiative. Shawn also works on policy publications, cost-effectiveness analysis, and outreach to disseminate lessons from J-PAL evaluations to the policy community. He has worked on evaluations of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) electricity projects in Tanzania and of grassroots development projects in the Philippines as a Fulbright Scholar. Shawn worked for three years in the domestic anti-hunger network, serving as an Emerson National Hunger Fellow and later as the Director of Advocacy at Food Bank of Alaska in Anchorage, AK. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Williams College; an M.Phil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, where he was a 2008 Gates Scholar; and an M.P.A. in Economics and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.