Hanauer leads organization in fight for good jobs and strong communities

Alumni Profiles from the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Amy Hanauer didn’t like that the economic expansion in the 1990s had left families in Ohio behind.

“After what many economists characterized as the longest, strongest economic expansion in recorded history, I saw enormous evidence that many Ohio families were not benefiting,” says Hanauer, who completed a master’s degree in public affairs and policy analysis at La Follette in 1997. “What’s more, their stories were not being fully told. My experience in Wisconsin