Jennifer Imazeki

Jennifer Imazeki is director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, a senate distinguished professor, and a professor of economics at San Diego State University (SDSU). She teaches courses in applied microeconomics and data analysis. She has worked on several projects to train middle and high school teachers to use economics to teach Common Core skills; she also created an economics for teachers course for SDSU undergraduate students working toward their single-subject teaching credential in social science. Her teaching work dovetails with her research on the economics of K–12 education, including work on school finance reform, adequacy, and teacher labor markets. Imazeki is a member of the American Economic Association (AEA) and has served on the board of directors of the Association of Education Finance and Policy, the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the AEA’s Committee on Economic Education. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

updated 2018