Adjunct & Affiliated Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Diana L. Moss
PhD Economics, Colorado School of Mines
Vice President and Director of Competition Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute
Diana Moss is Vice President and Director of Competition Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. From 2015-2023, Dr. Moss was President of the American Antitrust Institute. An economist, her work spans the economic, policy, and legal analysis of antitrust enforcement and sector regulation, with industry expertise in digital technology, energy, agriculture, airlines, telecommunications, media, and healthcare. Before AAI, Dr. Moss served at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission where she coordinated the agency’s merger analysis and worked on landmark rule makings. She has also consulted in private practice in the areas of regulation and antitrust.
Dr. Moss has spoken widely on various topics involving competition policy and enforcement, testified before Congress, appeared before state and federal regulatory commissions, in federal court, at industry and academic conferences, and has made numerous radio and television appearances, including on CNN, PBS, NPR, CNBC, and others. She has published articles in numerous economic and legal journals, including: American Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Organization, The Antitrust Bulletin, The Antitrust Source, Antitrust Magazine, and Energy Law Journal. She is editor of Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust, and has contributed chapters to The Structure of American Industry, and the Global Competition Review’s (GCR’s) The Guide to Merger Remedies.
Dr. Moss was named to the GCR’s Women in Antitrust in 2016 and again in 2021. She has long championed the advancement of women in the law and economics profession. In 2021, Dr. Moss was inducted into the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s Hall of Fame-inism. Diana Moss was named by Washingtonian Magazine’s “Washington DC’s Most Influential People" in 2022 and 2023. She holds a MA degree from the University of Denver and a PhD from the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Moss is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Email: diana.moss@colorado.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Sara Avila Forcada
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Economics & Continuing Education
Sara Avila is an economics Associate Teaching Professor with almost two decades of experience teaching in public and private universities. Her research interests are in the fields of environmental and urban economics. She has worked on topics related to air quality, climate change, urban transportation, and biodiversity conservation. She is always learning about better methods to communicate and teach. She is passionate about building understanding in a diverse environment, and she uses online teaching as a tool to achieve this goal.
Office: ECON 06A • 303.492.8737
Email: sara.avila@colorado.edu
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/avila-sara/
Alpna Bhatia
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Economics & Continuing Education
Dr. Alpna Bhatia (Dr. B) has a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her areas of academic research and interest include (but are not limited to) gender issues, sustainable development, and teaching methodology. She has been learning and teaching for around twenty years. Outside of class, Dr. B is the chief experimenter in her kitchen, master list maker, and occasional killer of plants.
Office: ECON 06A • 303.492.8737
Email: Alpna.bhatia@colorado.edu
Karen Gebhardt
Associate Teaching Professor
Professor of Economics Pedagogical Practice
Director of the Online Economics Program
Karen Gebhardt's research focuses on using learning analytics to improve student learning outcomes in economics education with an emphasis on improving grades and completion rates in online courses. She is an early adopter of technology in the classroom and advocates strongly for it because she sees the difference it makes in student engagement and learning. In her free time, Karen enjoys rock climbing and traveling in the Colorado Rockies and beyond.
Office: ECON 203 • 303.492.2493
Email: Karen.Gebhardt@Colorado.edu
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/karengebhardt/
Kremena Platikanova-Gross
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kremena Platikanova-Gross has a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado since 2006. Her research interests are in the fields of Econometrics and International Trade. She teaches undergraduate classes in Econometrics.
Office: ECON 14C
Email: Kremena.Platikanova@Colorado.edu