Jacqueline Murray Brux is honored emeritus professor of economics who received her PhD from and taught economic development and the economics of social issues in the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and was the founder and director of the Center for International Development at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She is the author of the college economics textbook Economic Issues and Policy (2022), now in its 8th edition, and she has worked and researched across the world in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.