Annette Bernhardt, Ph.D., is Deputy Director of the Poverty Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The Brennan Center provided legal and policy support to minimum wage ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, and Ohio. Dr. Bernhardt coordinates the Center's policy analysis and research support for state and local campaigns around living wage jobs, workers' rights, and accountable development. A leading scholar of low-wage work, she has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to the changing nature of work in the United States. She has published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among others. Her recent book, Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace, is the most extensive study to date of how the choices employers make in response to economic globalization, industry deregulation, and new technology affect the lives of millions of workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. Her earlier book, Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market (Russell Sage 2001), was awarded Princeton University's Lester Prize for the best new work in labor economics in 2002. Dr. Bernhardt received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1993.

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