E-Mail: jwalters@mdpolicy.org

John J. Walters is a research associate with the Maryland Public Policy Institute; Director of Marketing for TestSoup, an education startup; and a social media marketer for Wasabi Ventures, an entrepreneurial firm. He received his bachelors in Economics from Loyola University Maryland in May 2009 and his first book, Econversations, an economics companion-text written as a collaborative effort with five other students during his final semester in college, is slated for publication by Pearson Education in the summer of 2012. Samples of his writing can be found regularly on the Maryland Policy Blog, the TestSoup blog, and the Wasabi Ventures blog.