Short answers, pulled from the story.
The American Economic Association was founded in 1885 in Saratoga Springs, New York. It was established by younger progressive economists trained in the German historical school, including Richard T. Ely, Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, and Katharine Coman.
Alice M. Rivlin became the first female president of the American Economic Association in 1986. She served more than a century after Katharine Coman co-founded the organization in 1885.
The American Economic Association publishes the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. In 2009, it added four area-specific journals under the name American Economic Journal, covering applied economics, economic policy, macroeconomics, and microeconomics.
The John Bates Clark Medal is awarded annually by the American Economic Association to an outstanding economist under the age of 40. It is informally called the "Baby Nobel" because many recipients later receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The American Economic Association has approximately 23,000 members. Over half are academics, about 15% work in business and industry, and the remainder are largely employed in government or not-for-profit organizations.
EconLit is an electronic bibliography produced by the American Economic Association. It is a comprehensive index of roughly 125 years of economic literature worldwide, covering peer-reviewed journal articles, books, working papers, and dissertations, organized using the JEL classification codes of the Journal of Economic Literature.