Kathryn Edwards is a 4th-year PhD student in Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is a proud native Texan and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Afterwards she taught English in Prague for one year and worked at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. for three before deciding to pursue her PhD. Kathryn’s focus is in Public and Labor Economics, and her dissertation will examine the interaction of the public and private safety net after job loss.