Gabriela Sandoval, executive director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute, stands before home in San Marino, California, that is on the market for $21 million, on April 6, 2023. - Sarah Reingewirtz/Los Angeles Daily News/TNS
Boosting taxes on America’s wealthiest people could bring in trillions of dollars to help the country solve its most pressing problems, according to Gabriela Sandoval, executive director of the non-profit Bay Area think tank Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute. Sandoval, a former sociology professor at University of California-Santa Cruz, was hired in January at the San Francisco-based think tank founded last year and named after a concept coined by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. She previously worked at the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland and became s...
