Yvonne Yen Liu
Director of Research
Yvonne Yen Liu is the Director of Research at The Maven Collaborative. She is a Research Fellow with the Transnational Institute and Co-Founder of Solidarity Research Center. She has over 20 years of experience as an applied social science researcher specializing in demographic and labor market analysis. Her work has been covered by Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Nation, and The Guardian. Yvonne serves on the boards of the Institute for Social Ecology, New Economy Coalition, and US Solidarity Economy Network. She teaches in the gender studies department at California State University, Los Angeles. Yvonne has an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology from Columbia University and a Master’s in sociology from The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she pursued a PhD.