Sheila Kirby
Sheila Nataraj Kirby (PhD, Economics) was a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit think tank, for over 30 years. She later served as a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her two primary research fields were education and defense, and she has published extensively in both of these areas. She held a joint appointment as an adjunct professor of economics and public policy at The George Washington University, where she taught at the graduate level for 25 years. Sheila volunteers with OpenTable in Bar Harbor, the NEH Public Library, and the Acadia Senior College.