Lenore Palladino joined the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics after serving as senior economist and policy counsel at the Roosevelt Institute, a New York-based think tank that promotes policy reforms focused on curbing corporate power and promoting public power. She has also been organizing director at MoveOn.org, vice president for policy and campaigns at Demos, and a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Smith College. She was the Louis O. Kelso Fellow with the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.