Our Team
Amy Cox
Amy Cox is an analyst with a passion for making data accessible and strategically actionable.
Cox has spent the past 15 years as an analytic consultant in the field of education, helping school systems, non-profits, and foundations use data to make strategic decisions. She conducts analyses related to resource allocation, student outcome trends, and program evaluation with a focus on equity and at-risk populations. Cox specializes in helping districts, nonprofits, and foundations to plan ahead, developing and providing implementation training and support for financial projection, budget, sustainability, and human resource planning tools, including a nationally recognized HR projection model.
In early 2017, Cox co-founded FLIP NC, a volunteer-based, grassroots organization working to elect progressives in North Carolina. Cox and Bayer partnered to run the organization’s data analytics team, which identified strategic district, precinct, and voter targets; ran on-going analysis of the organization’s voter outreach efforts; and provided redistricting and election analysis to the public and to grassroots organizations across the state. Cox and Bayer have since provided analytic consulting to progressive organizations and Democratic candidates from the state level to the municipal level.
Cox holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate certificate in education finance from Georgetown University.
Patrick Bayer
Patrick Bayer is an academic economist with a deep focus on equity and racial justice.
Bayer’s academic research encompasses a range of subjects, including racial inequality and segregation, discrimination, neighborhood effects, housing market dynamics, education, and criminal justice. His most recent projects examine jury representation and its consequences, the intergenerational consequences of residential and school segregation, neighborhood tipping, gentrification, the effect of police and criminal justice interactions on families, and the impact of bail reform. Bayer is currently Gilhuly Family Professor of Economics at Duke University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Shortly after Cox co-founded the grassroots organization FLIP NC, in 2017, Bayer and Cox – who had previously co-chaired an education finance committee together for several years – teamed up as the organization’s data analytics team, running an array of analyses with a focus on voting patterns, voter targets, redistricting, and election analysis. The team also created a widely used set of interactive district, county, and precinct-level maps to aid Democratic voter targeting for organizations across the state. In partnership with Cox, Bayer has also provided voter targeting analysis to Democratic campaigns from the state to the local level.
Bayer holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Princeton University.