PhD in Economics, 2001. Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics. Director of Research, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
The Brookings Institution, Non-resident Scholar, 2016-present. Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, Invited researcher, 2018-present.
Previously, Modestino was a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she led numerous research projects on regional economic and policy issues.
Winner of the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association.