Chandini Sankaran, Ph.D., is an associate professor of economics in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College.  She has expertise in economic inequality and the economics of education.  Her research focuses on energy and environmental economics, public policy and education economics.  She is a member of the National Economic Education Delegation, whose purpose is to promote a nonpartisan understanding of the economics of U.S. policy issues.  Sankaran has been honored with a number of teaching excellence awards.