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