Ida is Vice President at the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, a leading national voice on Americans’ financial health. Ida combines her expertise in economic inclusion research and policy  with her reputation as a collaborative and creative thinker to raise up a national conversation and solutions set around  financial inequality and financial instability. Ida and her team are building a cross-disciplinary community of leaders and  change agents who, together, are deeply probing critical financial challenges facing US households and shaping market and  policy innovations that can improve the financial security and wellbeing of all Americans. 

Prior to leading the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, Ida was Chief Program Officer at Prosperity Now (formerly  CFED), where she created the multi-institutional team that led the CFPB’s Consumer Financial Well-Being Metrics Project,  and also led the creation of Upside Down, a program examining ways the US income tax code generates disparate wealth building opportunities and contributes to growing levels of wealth inequality. Earlier in her career Ida led research and  evaluation projects at the Aspen Economic Opportunities Program and the Center for Behavioral and Evaluation Research at  the Academy for Educational Development.