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Samuel Owusu

Research Assistant
Samuel Owusu is originally from Chicago, IL. Samuel is a research assistant with the Education Policy Initiative and a second year Masters in Public Policy student.  He is also a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina where he majored in…
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Joseph Payovich

Web Developer, Office of Communications & Outreach
Joe Payovich is a web designer at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, where he supports the web and digital projects needs of the Education Policy Initiative, Program for Practical Policy Engagement, Poverty…
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Stacey Rzeszut

Administrative Coordinator
Stacey Rzeszut is the administrative coordinator for EPI and provides fiscal, operational and administrative support to the EPI team, predoctoral candidates, and the Michigan Education Data Center. Stacey also manages the Education Policy Speaker…
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Thomas Staines

Data Analyst
Tom Staines is a Data Analyst with the Education Policy Initiative. He joined EPI after obtaining his MPP at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of…
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Anne Taylor

Senior Project Manager, Education Policy Initiative
Annie Taylor is a senior project manager focusing on early childhood with the Education Policy Initiative. Her work at EPI includes designing and implementing research agendas and studies for universal preschool programs around the county. She joined…
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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

Executive Director of Information and Evaluation, Santa Rosa City Schools
Emanuele Bardelli is Executive Director of Information and Evaluation, Santa Rosa City Schools.  His research interests include teacher professional development, teacher learning, and instructional practices.  Bardelli's dissertation studied how…
Alumni

Jason Baron

Assistant Professor of Economics, Duke University
Jason Baron is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University.  Jason was an IES postdoctoral fellow with the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He obtained his PhD in economics from Florida State University.…
Alumni

Nate Bauer

Assistant Dean for Financial Aid, University of Michigan Law School
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 Higher Education, Adult Learning, and Organizational Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington
Meredith Billings is an assistant professor in the Department of Higher Education, Adult Learning, and Organizational Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.  Her overall research agenda focuses on financial and informational barriers to…
Alumni

Stacey Brockman

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

Elizabeth Burland

Assistant Research Professor, University of Connecticut School of Public Policy
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.…
Alumni

Kristen Cummings

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Kristen Cummings is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks at the Center for Education Policy Research. Kristen recently completed her doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Michigan, where…
Alumni

KC Deane

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

Shauna Dyer

Harvard David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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 asks how…
Alumni

Fernando Furquim

Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Minneapolis College
Fernando Furquim received his PhD from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan and was an IES predoctoral fellow. He currently serves as Director of Institutional Effectiveness for Minneapolis…
Alumni

Thomas Goldring

Director of Research at the Georgia Policy Labs, Georgia State University
Thomas Goldring is the director of research at the Georgia Policy Labs. He supports the faculty directors in managing research projects and providing analytical and technical support across GPL’s three component parts. He has researched issues in…
Alumni

Max Gross

Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica
Max Gross is a Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica. An economist specializing in child welfare and education policy, Max has contributed to various child welfare research projects. He currently serves as administrative data lead…
Alumni

Steven Hemelt

Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Steven Hemelt is a 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 Fellow in the CESifo Research Network, and a Senior Researcher at the National…
Alumni

Daniel Hubbard

Economic Researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR)
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…
Alumni

Joshua Hyman

Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst College
Joshua Hyman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Amherst College. Hyman is a labor and public economist studying social and economic policy issues primarily focused on the economics of education, school finance, and…
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Amanda Ketner Weissman

Research Statistician Developer, SAS
Amanda (Ketner) Weissman completed her Ph.D. in educational studies and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Weissman is a research statistician developer at SAS.  She specializes in quantitative research methods for P-12…
Alumni

Daniel Kreisman

Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia State University
​Daniel Kreisman is an Associate 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 at the intersection of…
Alumni

Tamara W. Linkow

Senior Director of Education Evaluation Studies, American Institutes for Research
Tamara Linkow is a senior director at AIR. In this role, she provides direction and support across AIR’s portfolio of federal education evaluation studies. With over 15 years of experience in research and evaluation, she has led impact and…
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 at the University of Michigan where she earned her PhD in Economics and Public Policy. She…
Alumni

Lillie Moffett

Education Research & Evaluation Consultant, California Department of Education
Lillie Moffett was a doctoral student in the Combined Program in Education & Psychology (CPEP) at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. She is currently working on preK research projects as an education research &…
Alumni

Tareena Musaddiq

Researcher, Mathematica, Human Services Division
Tareena Musaddiq's work focuses on education policy in K–12 schools and early childhood education. She has worked on a range of projects in education, early childhood, and nutrition. Her past work focused on the impact of free school meals under the…
Alumni

Meghan Oster

Research Director, The College Board
Meghan Oster is a Research Director at The College Board where she supports research initiatives across the organization using a variety of internal data sources.  She is working on creating AP student profiles to describe how students move through…
Alumni

Stephanie Owen

Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College
Stephanie Owen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College. She studies the economics of education, with an interest in understanding reasons for and remedies for educational inequality along various dimensions. Owen graduated from the…
Alumni

Shwetha Raghuraman

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aarhus University and Research Fellow, TrygFonden's Centre for Child Research
Shwetha Raghuraman is an applied microeconomist studying education and inequality. Her research spans topics such as school choice, multidimensional impacts of schools on students, free tuition program design, and higher education finance. She uses…