Education
Wells received her Bachelor from the University of Chicago and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. After obtaining her Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, Wells obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
She has taught or done research at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. Foreign The Occupy Handbook, Wells held the position of guest editor as well as contributing an original article. She is a frequent writer for The Guardian online, has published articles in economics journals, and blogged for The Huffington Post.