Sam Zacher

Welcome! I am a Research Manager at Analyst Institute. From 2024-25, I served as a Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California. I study the politics and public policy of inequality, redistribution, and climate change in the contemporary United States. 

I completed my Ph.D. in political science from Yale University 2024. My research has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2016 with a B.A. in political science and economics. I currently live in Los Angeles, CA, and I also write about and organize in the climate movement. 

Email: szacher@usc.edu. Twitter: @samzacher.