
Rhea Acuña
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, urban policy

Graham Ambrose
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Governance and decision-making in the food system

Austin McNeill Brown
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
Areas of Expertise
Recovery science, addiction recovery wellness, substance use disorders

Mayra Samantha Cervantes
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Brandon Charles
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and energy policy, utility regulation, energy transitions

Adam Cucchiara
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Veterans’ affairs, law enforcement and policing, national security

William Clay Fannin
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Social welfare programs, poverty policy

Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and energy policy, energy transitions, green innovation

Joshua Grove
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
B.A., Psychology, Hood College, 1998
M.A., Religion and Biblical Theology, United Lutheran Seminary, 2000
M.A., Sociology, University at Albany, 2008
426 Eggers Hall

Zhe He
Ph.D Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Harneet Kaur
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall

Hyojeong Kim
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, public finance

Jooyoung Kim
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Shuyuan Li
Ph.D. Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Maeve Maloney
Ph.D. Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics

Mitch McFarlane
Ph.D Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Anti-poverty programs, public health

Qasim Mehdi
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Climate change, hydrology and watershed management, environmental policy, collaborative governance

Nicholas Oesterling
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Design and Governance
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Policy design, implementation and compliance, institutional analysis

Michael Quinn
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Economics of education

Radine Rafols
Ph.D. Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics, development, environmental economics.

Sarah Souders
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Public finance and governance, political economy of education, social policy, education program evaluation

Yue Sun
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
B.A., Public Administration, East China University of Science & Technology, 2015
M.A., Sociology, Zhejiang University, 2017
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Zoe Tkaczyk
J.D./M.P.A. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Assistant, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
M.A., Sociology, Syracuse University, 2020
M.S., Sociology, Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russia, 2014
B.A., Sociology, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, 2010
426 Eggers Hall

Rui Xu
Ph.D Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise

Zhanhan Yu
Ph.D. Job Market Candidate, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Labor, urban, environmental economics

Bo Zheng
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Impact of technological advancement on social inequality

Dongmei Zuo
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall
Areas of Expertise
Aging and health, health-based public policy, food and nutrition policy, social gerontology