In 2019, Kelton was invited to be the Geoff Harcourt Visiting Professor at the University of Adelaide. On May 25, 2017, Stony Brook University announced that Kelton would join the university 'This fall as a professor in the forthcoming Center for the Study of Inequality and Social Justice.' She joined Stony Brook at the same time as her husband Paul, who was appointed the first Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American history, at the College of Arts and Sciences. On December 26, 2014, Kelton was designated Chief Economist for the Democratic Minority Staff of the Senate Budget Committee, a post she held in 2015 and early 2016, when she left that position to become an economic advisor to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Kelton is editor-in-chief of the New Economic Perspectives blog. She was a research scholar at the UMKC Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Levy Economics Institute in upstate New York. Kelton is a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University and was formerly the chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. in economics from The New School for Social Research in 2001 with her dissertation, 'Public Policy and Government Finance: A Comparative Analysis Under Different Monetary Systems.' On a fellowship from Christ's College, Cambridge, Kelton then spent a year at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. She received a Rotary scholarship to study economics at the University of Cambridge, receiving her Master's degree in 1997. Kelton studied business finance and economics at California State University, Sacramento, and earned a B.S. She is married to Paul Kelton, and they have two children. Kelton is the daughter of Jerald and Marlene Bell. In fall 2019, she joined the board of Matriarch PAC. Fast Company later placed Kelton on its list of Most Creative People in Business. She was named one of Politico's 50 'thinkers, doers, and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016'. Kelton is founder and editor-in-chief of the blog New Economic Perspectives. She also served as an advisor to Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and worked for the Senate Budget Committee under his chairmanship. She was formerly a professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

She is a professor at Stony Brook University and a Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. Stephanie A Kelton ( née Bell born October 10, 1969) is an American heterodox economist and academic, and a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory. California State University, Sacramento ( BA, BS)

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