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
Areas of Expertise
Governance and decision-making in the food system
Mariah Brennan
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Graduate Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion
Areas of Expertise
Veteran affairs (education and health)
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
Areas of Expertise
Recovery science, addiction recovery wellness, substance use disorders
Brandon Charles
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Adam Cucchiara
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
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
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
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
BA, Psychology, Hood College, 1998
MA, Religion and Biblical Theology, United Lutheran Seminary, 2000
MA, Sociology, University at Albany, 2008
Zhe He
Ph.D Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Applied econometrics, econometrics theory
Harneet Kaur
Ph.D. Student, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Hyojeong Kim
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy, public finance
Jooyoung Kim
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, public economics, labor economics
Sujung (Crystal) Lee
Ph.D. Student, Sociology Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
BS, Sociology, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, 2017
Shuyuan Li
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Education economics
Maeve Maloney
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics
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
Areas of Expertise
Policy design, implementation and compliance, institutional analysis
Lauryn Quick
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Social policy
Michael Quinn
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Economics of education
Radine Rafols
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Urban economics, labor economics, development
Sarah Souders
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
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
B.A., Public Administration, East China University of Science & Technology, 2015
M.A., Sociology, Zhejiang University, 2017
Rui Xu
Ph.D Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
Labor economics, education, applied econometrics
Zhanhan Yu
Ph.D. Student, Economics Department
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
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
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
Areas of Expertise
Aging and health, health-based public policy, food and nutrition policy, social gerontology