Moxie Clifford is a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Clifford graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in economics, data science, and mathematics. Their research interests include public economics, political economy and the economics of happiness.

As a first-year associate, Clifford has collaborated with several economists at the Richmond Fed. They have helped John Bailey Jones to study racial disparities in medical spending, Nicolas Morales in studying differences in career progression between races, Claudia Macaluso with her work on job search practices, and John O’Trakoun on economic policy.