Elizabeth Kneebone

Elizabeth Kneebone is assistant vice president of research in Community Engagement and Analysis at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In this role, she manages the Community Engagement and Analysis research team and shapes and contributes to its research portfolio, with a focus on understanding the economic experiences of lower-income communities and informing community development stakeholders on promising practices related to economic opportunity.

Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Elizabeth served as the research director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research focused on the ways in which the built environment, housing, and land use policies shape access to economic opportunity. Prior to the Terner Center, Elizabeth was a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, where she led the program’s research examining the changing geography of U.S. poverty and its causes and consequences and co-authored the book Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. Elizabeth also previously worked as a research project manager at IFF (formerly the Illinois Facilities Fund).

Elizabeth holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in history from Indiana University.

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