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Mehrsa Baradaran

  • Associate Dean & Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine

Mehrsa Baradaran is associate dean and a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. Baradaran is the author of The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap and How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and The Threat to Democracy. Her research focuses on financial inclusion, racial inequality, and banking regulation.

Featuring this expert

Debt Talks Episode 2 | Debt, Wealth, and Racial Inequalities

moderated by Moritz Schularick with Mehrsa Baradaran, Ashley C. Harrington, Darrick Hamilton and Louise Seamster

Event Webinar | Hosted by Private Debt | Sep 15, 2020

Racial inequalities of wealth and income are pervasive. This episode of Debt Talks will feature a conversation with four prominent experts on the persistence of racial inequalities of wealth and income and the role of financial markets in shaping them.