Kate Harwood

I am an Assistant Professor of Economic Development in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

My areas of interest include urban economics, affordable housing policy and public economics with a special focus on how these fields intersect with the increasingly pressing issues of climate change and social inequality.  

I graduated with a PhD in Public Policy from New York University in 2024 where I was also a Doctoral Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.  Prior to starting at NYU I was a Senior Analyst at Abt Associates and earned an MS in Economics from Tufts University.