Board Member

Tonantzin Carmona

Tonantzin Carmona is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where her research focuses on wealth and inequality, financial and emerging technologies, and state and local policy implementation. She previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council (NEC) and as Senior Advisor in the Department of Treasury’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Implementation Office.

Her work and commentary have been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Politico, Axios, Fortune, Associated Press, NPR Marketplace, and others.

Carmona’s career spans public policy, communications, politics, and philanthropy. She championed federal policy as Illinois political director for the 2020 presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and as Sen. Warren’s deputy press secretary on Capitol Hill. At the local level, she led several citywide initiatives in Chicago and served as the Director of the Mayor's Office of New Americans and as Chief of Policy to the Chicago City Clerk.

She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA in political science from Northwestern University.