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Staff

Qia Yang

Data Programmer

Qia Yang is the data programmer at the Education Policy Initiative. His primary work is to maintain the Michigan Education Data Center, import data from the State of Michigan and export data to MERI researchers. He also optimizes the code in MEDC to…

Alumni

Emanuele Bardelli

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University

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Emanuele Bardelli is a postdoctoral research associate in education policy at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. His research interests include teacher professional development, teacher learning, and instructional…

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Jason Baron

Assistant Research Professor of Economics, Duke University

Jason Baron was an IES postdoctoral fellow with the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He recently obtained his PhD in economics from Florida State University and will join the Department of Economics at Duke University…

Alumni

Nate Bauer

Director of Financial Aid, University of Michigan Law School

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Nate Bauer received his PhD from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the School of Education. Nate’s focus of study was public policy in postsecondary education, and he is very interested in financial aid policy and…

Alumni

Meredith Billings

Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Sam Houston State University

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Meredith Billings is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Sam Houston State University. Prior to joining the faculty, Meredith was a postdoctoral research and teaching associate in the Institute of Higher Education at…

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Stacey Brockman

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Wayne State University

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Stacey L. Brockman, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Brockman spent a significant portion of her career as a high school teacher, teacher educator, and intervention…

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Elizabeth Burland

Alumni

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Elizabeth Burland is an assistant research professor in the University of Connecticut School of Public Policy. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.…

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KC Deane

Associate Director of Research and Program Evaluation, Washington Student Achievement Council

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KC Deane is an Associate Director of Research and Program Evaluation at the Washington Student Achievement Council, Washington State's higher education agency. She completed her doctoral studies as an IES predoctoral fellow in the University of…

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Shauna Dyer

Alumni

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Shauna Dyer received her PhD in sociology at the University of Michigan and was an IES predoctoral fellow. She is currently a David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Her research primarily…

Alumni

Fernando Furquim

Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Minneapolis Community & Technical College

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Fernando Furquim was a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Furquim is now the Director of Institutional Effectiveness at the Minneapolis Community & Technical College. …

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Thomas Goldring

Research Director of the Georgia Policy Labs at Georgia State University

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Thomas Goldring is the Research Director of the Georgia Policy Labs at Georgia State University. His research interests include school finance, test-based accountability, and career and technical education. Dr. Goldring earned his Ph.D. and M.Phil.,…

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Max Gross

Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica

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Max Gross is a Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica. An applied economist with a focus on labor economics, he uses large data and rigorous quantitative methods to explore how public policy can best support historically underserved…

Alumni

Nikki Hamp

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Dr. Nikki Hamp is a board-certified developmental behavioral pediatrician and the medical director of Arbor Autism Centers in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is an adjunct clinical assistant professor within the division of DBP at Michigan Medicine and is…

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Steven Hemelt

Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Steven Hemelt is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hemelt is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a Senior Researcher at the National Center for Analysis of…

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Daniel Hubbard

Economic Researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR)

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Daniel Hubbard is an economic researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Arlington, Virginia. At AIR, Daniel has designed and conducted a variety of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of educational…

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Joshua Hyman

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Amherst College.

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Joshua Hyman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Amherst College. Hyman's fields of interest are in labor economics, public finance, and the economics of education. His research examines the effects of education policies…

Alumni

Amanda Ketner Weissman

Research Statistician Developer, SAS

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Amanda (Ketner) Weissman completed her Ph.D. in educational studies and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the use of quantitative methods to study education for marginalized student populations…

Alumni

Daniel Kreisman

Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University

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Daniel Kreisman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. Kreisman previously served as postdoctoral research fellow with the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative. His research addresses topics in labor economics,…

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Tamara W. Linkow

Principle Associate, Division of Social and Economic Policy

Tamara Linkow has 11 years of experience conducting quantitative and qualitative educational research and evaluation. She has played leadership roles on studies using both experimental and quasi-experimental methods. She has worked for federal…

Alumni

Shawn Martin

Associate, Cornerstone Research

Shawn Martin is an associate at Cornerstone Research. She was a fellow in the Predoctoral Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research. She graduated from the University of California – San Diego with a B.S. in Economics and from…

Alumni

Lillie Moffett

Researcher, Boston Public Schools and Child 360 in Los Angeles

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Lillie Moffett was a doctoral student in the Combined Program in Education & Psychology (CPEP). She is currently working on preK research projects with Boston Public Schools and Child 360 in Los Angeles. She is a Rackham Merit Fellow, NSF Graduate…

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Tareena Musaddiq

Researcher, Mathematica, Human Services Division

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Tareena Musaddiq is a Researcher at Mathematica in the Human Services division. Her research interests include the economics of education, health economics and development economics. Her work focuses on evaluating policies related to education and…

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Meghan Oster

Research Director, The College Board

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Meghan Oster was a doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) and IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Oster currently works at the College Board, researching the path to college…

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Stephanie Owen

Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College

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Stephanie Owen graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in Economics and Public Policy in 2021 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College. She studies the economics of education and is interested in…

Alumni

Silvia C. Robles

Researcher at Mathematica

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Silvia Robles was a postdoctoral fellow with the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative. Her research interests include the economics of education and labor studies. Her work focuses on the transition between high school and college, and on…

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Rachel Rosen

Senior Associate, K-12 Education; co-Director of MDRC's Center for Effective Career and Technical Education (CTE).

Rosen joined MDRC in 2014 and is currently co-director of MDRC’s Center for Effective Career and Technical Education (CTE), which incubates new ideas, synthesizes findings and lessons learned, and disseminates this knowledge to…

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Nathaniel Schwartz

Professor of Practice, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University

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Nathaniel Schwartz is a professor of practice at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. He leads Annenberg’s efforts to develop local partnerships that directly improve the quality of schools and experiences of students while…

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Anna Shapiro

Research Associate, RAND Corporation

Anna Shapiro's research focuses on the effects of early childhood programs and policies on young children’s cognitive and socioemotional outcomes. She is particularly focused on the effects of early childhood programs on children with or at-risk for…

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Andrew Simon

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

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Andrew Simon is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the John Mitchell Lab. Prior to that, Andrew was a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Michigan and an Institute of Education…

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Sabrina Solanki

Academic Administrator, Education Research Initiative, University of California - Irvine

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Sabrina Solanki completed her IES Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research focused on higher education policy, teacher effectiveness, STEM education, and the evaluation of education…