Rachel Lipson

Rachel Lipson is a co-founder and Scholar in Residence at the Project on Workforce, and a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. She is also a Resident Scholar at the Aspen Institute's Economic Strategy Group and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro. Rachel's current research focuses on a new generation of technical jobs—many fueled by AI and other emerging technologies—that do not require a four-year degree. She is studying the labor market experience of U.S. “frontier regions” at the forefront of producing critical technologies such as AI data centers, chips, quantum technologies, nuclear energy, biomanufacturing, and batteries.