Our new research series Mobility Experiences, published in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, examines some key factors influencing US economic mobility.
Marc Allen
Director, Shared Prosperity Sector Lead
Marc brings 15 years’ experience shaping investment strategy, policy, and technology to advance economic opportunity and democratic governance. A regular public speaker in these areas, his work features in leading journals and media.
In his role as Shared Prosperity Sector Lead at Camber, Marc has scaled a portfolio of work in economic security, income/wealth mobility, economic planning, and civic/democratic inclusion as well as new service lines in breakthrough research, fund development, and technical assistance — evolving Camber from a consulting firm to a field-building organization in the process. He currently also leads Camber’s engagement in Public Interest Technology.
Prior to this, Marc pled international public policy and investment cases at global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and supported the founding team of an investment fund expanding access to justice.
He earned a BS in International Relations with a concentration in Political Economy from the London School of Economics before completing law school. Based in California, he is a native speaker of English/French and fluent in Spanish.
Posts by Marc Allen
In 2023, Camber Collective and the Economic Mobility & Opportunity team at the Bill & Melinda Gates ...
This piece discusses the implications of public benefit access disparities across states in the US and presents a methodological approach applied by Camber to identify and address disparities at the state level.
Through our work, we have identified several key equity principles that are common across the most inclusive and high-performing charter schools and initiatives, which could serve as a model for both new and existing charters to follow.
Although US inflation levels are now beginning to moderate, many still feel the sting of higher prices, particularly low-income households. Philanthropies should focus part of their financial and non-financial resources on mechanisms that advance consumer protection, financial literacy, and gap areas in terms of federal support.
The racial and ethnic wealth divide is primarily the result of historic and continuing systemic inequities that affect people of color in the United States (e.g., land theft from indigenous tribes, enslavement of Black people, the G.I. Bill, redlining and housing discrimination, etc.). Baby bonds policies could, using a race-neutral approach, begin to correct some of those inequities that underlie the racial and ethnic wealth divide.
In analyzing and partnering with organizations supporting opportunity youth nationwide, we have identified 4 sequential categories of needs that must be met in order for OY to experience upward economic mobility and thrive within the workforce.
Learnings from our landscape analysis of the Mobility from Poverty space in the US.
Initially drawn to economic mobility as a social impact issue, many stakeholders have been compelled to take action on economic mobility in the face of three longstanding trends: persistently high poverty rates, new evidence of declining economic mobility, and unsustainable levels of wealth concentration. We discuss these trends and how stakeholders can engage more meaningfully.
As government, philanthropy, and the private sector become increasingly aligned around the need to share prosperity more equitably in the US, particular momentum has grown to strengthen economic mobility – in the form of breakthrough research, ambitious policies, and powerful coalitions.