Santiago Deambrosi joined the American Enterprise Institute as a Research Assistant at the Poverty Studies Unit in February 2020. He previously spent a year at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy managing research studies on US welfare programs, systemic racism, and wealth inequality – all with a focus on families and child outcomes. Santiago has worked at The Hamilton Project, the Economics Unit of the Brookings Institution, and at Innovations for Poverty Action. During his undergraduate degree, Santiago co-founded a local chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) and led multiple minority organizations including the Latin American Student Organization and the Third Culture Kids Club.

Santiago is an applied microeconomist with interests in public policy, poverty and welfare, child outcomes, and environmental economics and policy. He received an M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in the Spring of 2020.