Kristen Monaco is a Professor of Economics at California State University, Long Beach. She is a recognized expert in the economics of the trucking industry and has published extensively on the wages, characteristics, and working conditions of port truck drivers, port labor issues, port infrastructure, and the effects of port deregulation. Dr. Monaco specializes in transportation economics and the intersection between industrial structure and labor markets. She has received or worked on numerous research grants from the Port of Long Beach and METRANS Transportation Center – a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center. She is the Associate Director of the 'Master of Arts in Global Logistics' program at Cal State Long Beach and a Research Associate at Georgia Institute of Technology's 'Trucking Industry Program.' Formerly, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and served as co-editor of Contemporary Economic Policy. Dr. Monaco received her PhD and M.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and her B.A. in Political Economy from Michigan State University.