Carmen
Brick

Dr. Carmen Brick is a senior researcher with the Low-Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Her research at the Labor Center focuses on job quality, access to job training, and the growing affordability crisis affecting worker well-being. Carmen is an alum of the Shift Project, where her research examined the production of gender inequalities at the firm level and policies to improve job quality in the service sector. Her doctoral research investigated state policy responses to declining job quality and joblessness in the early decades of the post-industrial period, including the emergence of the work-based safety net, the turn to work-only policies, and divestment in workforce training. She is currently preparing a book manuscript on these shifts in social and employment policy and the resulting effects upon workers and their families today.

Carmen has provided policy research and analysis for the New York State Legislature, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Congressional Research Service, and the City and County of San Francisco, and brings experience in public finance, housing policy, and program evaluation. She holds a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an MPA in Public Finance from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at SUNY Albany.