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 Allen – Director, Shared Prosperity Sector Lead
Marc brings 15 years’ experience shaping investments, programs, and policies to equalize economic opportunity and revitalize civic and democratic governance – the bases of inclusive political economies across the US and around the world.
A regular public speaker / contributor on these topics at events such as the Just Economy Conference, Prosperity Summit, and Skoll World Forum, the work of Marc’s teams has also featured in diverse journals and media outlets, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review to The Guardian.
In his role as Director & Shared Prosperity Sector Lead at Camber, Marc manages research, strategic planning, and field initiatives advancing economic and social inclusion on behalf of government and nonprofit changemakers. Most recently, his work has focused on uncovering the 28 life experiences most proven to increase lifetime income, housed at MobilityExperiences.org.
Previously, Marc graduated from the London School of Economics & Political Science, before completing law school and pleading cases of public policy as an attorney at global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Based in California and raised in Europe, with formative experiences across the American and Global South, he is a native English / French speaker 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.