Christopher Witko is Executive Director of the University of California Center Sacramento (UCCS). Prior to joining UCCS, he helped build Penn State’s new School of Public Policy as its Associate Director. Witko’s research focuses on how policy shapes inequality and other economic outcomes, and how economic disparities shape the politics and the policy process. His work has appeared in leading political science, public policy, and public administration journals. Witko’s most recent coauthored book, Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence (2021) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the Best Book on U.S national policy from the American Political Science Association.  The New Economic Populism: How States Respond to Economic Inequality won the State Politics and Policy Section’s Virginia Gray best book award. Witko has been part of research teams funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council. Witko holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts from SUNY Albany, and a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Plattsburgh.