Born in Ghana, Felix Owusu moved to the United States, to Iowa, at an early age with his parents and three brothers. Felix attended Williams College and studied international economics and political science. “Part of my interest in policy and thinking through economics was motivated by my experiences as an immigrant who straddled that line between communities and saw just how much the policy choices that governments were making impacted people's lives,” he said. “That juxtaposition made it clear to me early on that thinking through structural causes of problems, but also structural solutions to help people out, is important.” After receiving his master's in public policy, he came to Harvard for a PhD. While at the Kennedy School, Felix collaborated with the Harvard Law School's Criminal Justice Policy Program, and also spent three semesters doing field work in Washington, D.C.'s local government, where he spearheaded the effort to release administrative data on police stops to the p...