CARA BRUMFIELD

Cara Brumfield is the Managing Director of Research and Policy at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. Cara manages and provides strategic direction for the Center’s research and policy agendas. She also leads the Center’s Census and Data Justice portfolio. Cara is a co-chair of the Census Quality Reinforcement Task Force.

Previously, Cara was the Director of the Public Benefits Justice team at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Before CLASP, Cara spent five years at GCPI leading research and policy projects related to the decennial census, federal data equity, human services, public benefits, and job quality. Cara was awarded the Congressional Hunger Center Alumni Leadership Award (2018) and currently serves on the Advisory Board for The Platform of Hope. She has been quoted or had her work highlighted in various outlets, including NPR, CQ Roll Call, the New York Times, the Black News Channel, and Mother Jones.

Cara completed her Master of Public Policy degree at American University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Inequality and Identity from Lafayette College. She is a former Congressional Hunger Center Emerson National Hunger Fellow, PPIA Fellow, Posse Scholar, and a proud graduate of Head Start.

Cara has deep experience applying a racial equity lens to economic justice issues. She understands the systems, policies, and programs that create and alleviate poverty—based on both her work and her own lived experiences. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Cara lives in Northwest Washington, DC.