Alvaro Sánchez joined the Community and Economic Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as a senior research analyst in January 2022. He contributes quantitative and qualitative research focused on benefits cliffs and broadband access. Previously, Sánchez was an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Before joining the Federal Reserve System, Sánchez completed a graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a public policy fellow in the Office of the Council President with Philadelphia City Council, providing research for city initiatives relating to housing affordability and student debt. Prior to grad school he was a research intern at the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, an early education policy fellow with the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, and a public policy and analysis intern with the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia. As an undergraduate student, Sánchez worked as a research assistant with Laurence Steinberg on the Crossroads Study, a multisite research project investigating the long-term impacts of formal and informal processing on first-time juvenile offenders.Sánchez has an M.S. in social policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in psychology from Temple University.