Kathryn Anne Edwards (she/her) is a labor economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research spans diverse areas of public policy, including unemployment insurance (UI); women and underrepresented minorities in STEM careers, the challenges in retirement facing older Americans; and the effect of divorce on women's earnings. Edwards completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Wisconsin. While a student, she was a National Institute of Aging Trainee at the Center for Demography and Human Ecology and a graduate fellow of the Institute for Research on Poverty.