YOUTH POLICY LAB - Key Persons
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- Student Research Assistant
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Andrew Olson is a third-year undergraduate student here at the University of Michigan. He is a Political Science and International Studies Major, with a minor in Urban Studies. He finds academic and career interest in health equity and health policy and hopes to pursue that further in his career and academics. Outside of school, Andrew enjoys playing basketball, hiking, and spending time with family and friends.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager
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Anna Hart Erickson is a senior project manager for the Youth Policy Lab, focusing on education and early childhood research. Prior to joining the Lab, Anna taught high school social studies and was an account manager for a marketing firm. She holds an MPP from the Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and also a BA in education from the University of Michigan. Outside of work, you can often find Anna out on the water (frozen or thawed!) with her family, making the most of living in the Great Lakes state.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Faculty Co - Director & Founder
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Brian A. Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of economics at the Ford School, and is co-director of the Youth Policy Lab. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Brian came to Michigan from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; he previously served as a policy analyst in the NYC Mayor's Office and taught middle school in East Harlem. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, program evaluation, and the economics of education. Brian's current research focuses on urban school reform, with a particular emphasis on standards and accountability initiatives. At the Ford School, he teaches "Economics of Education" and classes focused on education policy. In 2008, Jacob received the David N. Kershaw Prize, an award given every two years to honor persons who, at under the age of 40, have made a distinguished contribution to the field of public policy. He received a BA from Harvard University in 1992 and a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Director of Strategic Partnerships
- in 2024 As Its New Director of Strategic Partnerships
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Carrie Hammerman joined the Youth Policy Lab in 2024 as its new Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this role, she seeks to increase YPL's visibility and policy impact while ensuring funding sustainability to support ongoing research and project development. Her leadership and program management experience are also key to supporting the next generation of policy professionals through the ASPIRE program and the Michigan Data and Policy Fellowship.
Carrie is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit and policy sectors and a dedication to advancing the well-being of people in Michigan. She leads with authenticity and integrity, prioritizing effective communication and relationship building in the pursuit of equity-centered social change. Most recently, she served as the Chief Strategy and Program Officer with NEW (Nonprofit Enterprise at Work). She was with this organization for nearly a decade, having also served as a Consultant and as Director of Organizational Development. In addition, she brings experience with workforce development and technology policy from prior roles with Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and Cyber-state.org. Carrie holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy as well as a Master of Information from the University of Michigan.
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
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Catherine Armstrong Asher is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Her research, at the intersection of experimental design, quantitative methods, and education, investigates treatment effect heterogeneity in interventions and policies to help build critical knowledge of what works in education and youth services, for whom, and in what contexts. Her current projects use rigorous designs to understand variation in the effects of complex interventions for elementary students and their families, as well as theory-and simulation-based methodological work to deepen our understanding of when statistical tools fail in intervention research. She completed her PhD Candidate in Education Policy & Program Evaluation and AM in Statistics at Harvard University, where she was an Institute for Education Sciences (IES) pre-doctoral fellow through the Partnering in Education Research program.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research
Daniel Almirall is a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. In clinical or educational practice, it is often necessary to use an individually-tailored, sequential approach to intervention in order to improve change in outcomes. Adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) are pre-specified multicomponent, multistage intervention packages that can be used to guide such sequential, intervention decision-making. Dr. Almirall is interested in the development and application of data collection designs and data analysis methods used to form high-quality adaptive interventions. This includes his methodological work on the use of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs), in which individuals or organizations are randomized repeatedly over time.
Deb has a BS in Computer Science from MSU and a MA in Education Studies from UM with certification in secondary education math. She has an interest in work that improves the educational experience of young people, particularly in middle school math. Previously she worked for nine years in preschool education, and has been an active volunteer in the community of Chelsea for over 25 years. In addition to her work at the YPL, Deb is a middle school math tutor.
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- Data & Policy Fellow, MDHHS MIHP
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Dipita Das (she/her), born in Bangladesh and raised in Detroit, is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's degree in Gender Studies and a Master's in Higher Education. Committed to dismantling barriers for marginalized communities, Dipita channels her passion into fostering growth and development, such as active participation in grassroots organizing and contributing to developing engaging and inclusive curricula. Outside her work, she dedicates time to reading; this year's goal is to read one book a month and stay active.
Job Titles:
- Collegiate Professor
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TITLE: Jack L Walker Jr Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
Elisabeth R. Gerber is the Jack L. Walker Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), and Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research. Her poverty-related research focuses on urban, regional, and metropolitan policy especially in the areas of: transportation and water policy; climate adaptation; and community, workforce, and economic development. Gerber is co-PI of the Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Study. She is the author of The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation (1999), co-author of Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy (2000), and co-editor of Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary (2001) and Michigan at the Millennium (2003). Her recent publications include "Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions" with Arun Agrawal and Ashwini Chhatre (APSR 2015, 109(3): 470-487) and "Spatial Dynamics of Vertical and Horizontal Intergovernmental Collaboration" with Carolyn Loh (JUA 2015, 37(3): 270-288). Gerber was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and currently serves as vice-chair of the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
Liz comes to YPL with 7 years of experience working in the California Department of Public Health. She holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree in Sociology. At YPL, she is responsible for overseeing our data operations, analyzing and maintaining administrative datasets, and supervising data analysts.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the U - M School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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TITLE: Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy and Center Director, Poverty Center
H. Luke Shaefer is an Associate Professor at the U-M School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the inaugural director of Poverty Solutions. His research on poverty and social welfare policy in the U.S. has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and Health Services Research, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Shaefer has presented his research at the White House and before numerous federal agencies, has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and has consulted with a number of the nation's largest social service providers as well as numerous community-based agencies. His work has also been cited in national news outlets and he has been featured on such programs as Marketplace and CNBC's Nightly Business Report. His recent book with Kathryn Edin, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2015 by the New York Times Book Review and won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism.
Job Titles:
- Research Process Manager
- Research Process Manager With the Youth Policy Lab at the Survey Research Center
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Jennifer Smith is a research process manager with the Youth Policy Lab at the Survey Research Center at U-M. She has been in sponsored research administration at the University of Michigan for 24 years and serves as the key administrator and fiscal officer for the Education and Well-Being Program (EWB), and has worked with Robin Jacob in this capacity since the program began in 2007. Jennifer holds a joint appointment with the Youth Policy Lab and leads the administrative and financial activities on behalf of the program.
Jennifer began her university career at the Michigan Sea Grant College Program in the U-M College of Engineering, where she served as lead administrator/fiscal officer for seven years, acting assistant director in her final year. She subsequently served as key administrator for the Study of Instructional Improvement (SII) at the School of Education. Her work with SII and close collaboration with the SII Study Director, Dr. Brian Rowan, led to her role with EWB where she helped to establish the administrative and financial structure for the program and continues as key administrator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Adrian College.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the U - M School of Social Work
- Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Joseph Ryan is an Associate Professor at the U-M School of Social Work and serves as co-director of the U-M Child & Adolescent Data Lab. Ryan received an MSW from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Ryan worked in a variety of residential and community based programs serving adolescents involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. He has extensive experience conducting applied research is social service settings and has been a part of numerous studies focusing on child maltreatment, parental substance abuse, childhood trauma, and juvenile delinquency. Ryan is currently the principal investigator for the Title IV-E waiver demonstration projects in Michigan and Illinois. He was appointed by Governor Snyder to serve on the Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice and also serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals that publish research on child welfare, including Child Maltreatment, Child Welfare, Social Work Research, and Residential Treatment for Children and Youth.
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- Data & Policy Fellow ( SCAO )
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Kaj is a research professional interested in youth development and how we can use data and public policy to create better and more equitable life outcomes for those involved in the juvenile justice system. In past roles, Kaj has been an educator with City Year Americorps, a data and policy analyst with the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, and, most recently, a community development specialist with Challenge Detroit and the Live6 Alliance.
Kaj holds a Master's of Public Policy from the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on criminal justice policy and a bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan. In his spare time, he is a passionate musician who loves to sing and play guitar with his band. He also sits on the Michigan Committee of Juvenile Justice (MCJJ) as a youth member.
Katja is an experienced lecturer in the field of Early Childhood Education with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is skilled in lecturing, data collection, proposal writing, and data analysis. Her scholarly research interests lie at the intersection of policies, practices, and well-being of children and families with an overall commitment to equity. Her dissertation study focused on an exploration of obstacles and challenges of low-income single mothers in higher education in Germany and the U.S., to understand how their individual experiences as students and as mothers at the micro level were shaped by policies regarding childcare and financial support at the macro level. Katja is a certified early childhood teacher and holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sociology with a focus on empirical research from Duisburg-Essen University in Germany and a Ph.D. in Education from Eastern Michigan University. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, cooking, playing soccer, and spending time with her family.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
- Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
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Kevin Stange is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he teaches graduate courses in higher education policy, economics, and quantitative methods. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and the Education Policy Initiative, both at University of Michigan.
Professor Stange's research lies broadly in empirical labor and public economics, with a focus on education and health care. His prior research includes studies of college enrollment and persistence, the effect of resources and peers on community college students, the importance of amenities in college choice, and the effects of different pricing structures on major choice and student credit load. He is currently conducting research on the effects of price deregulation in higher education and the importance of school capital investment in K12. He has also researched changes in the health care workforce and occupational licensing. His research has been published in numerous economics, education, and policy academic journals and featured in popular outlets such as Time, Wall Street Journal, Inside Higher Ed, Chronicle of Higher Ed, Atlantic Monthly, and the Freakonomics blog. He has received research support from the U.S. Department of Education, the Spencer Foundation, the WT Grant Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Prior to joining the Ford School, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. He received undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Project Manager at LSA - Economics
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Lauren is a project manager at LSA-Economics and the Youth Policy Lab where she manages the implementation of multiple randomized controlled trials. Her current projects include evaluations of summer youth employment programs and of Michigan's Maternal Infant Health Program. Before coming to the university in 2018 Lauren performed research on K-12 education programs, with a particular focus on schools in southwest Michigan.
Lauren holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a BA in Political Science from Alma College. When not at work she can often be found reading, listening to podcasts, or cheering for the Detroit Red Wings.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Dean for Research Faculty, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School and Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
- Professor and Director of the CHEAR Center
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Dr. Prosser is a Professor and Director of the CHEAR Center. Her research focuses on measuring the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of childhood health interventions using methods of decision sciences and economics. Current research topics include evaluating long-term health and economic outcomes for newborn screening programs using simulation modeling, measuring public values for screening programs, and developing new methods for valuing family spillover effects of childhood illness.
Dr. Prosser's research on the economic impact of influenza vaccination has been used in setting national vaccine policy for children and for prioritizing subgroups in vaccine shortage years. Her studies using decision science modeling to project long-term health outcomes for proposed newborn screening programs have been used to inform national newborn screening policy decisions. She is currently a member of the evidence review group for the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children and the ACIP Zoster Working Group.
Dr. Prosser also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Lynn Meissner is a project manager at the Youth Policy Lab. She has a doctorate in Human Development and Social Policy from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and a BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the transition from high school to postsecondary education and the workforce. She is interested in how young people develop their educational and occupational aspirations and the role of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and other structural interventions in helping people reach their goals.
Lynn is passionate about critically examining the values and priorities of our social systems and supporting systemic changes to create a more just, equitable, healthy, diverse, and collectively-oriented society. She has deep experience in social justice organizing spaces and works to build a more beautiful future in all areas of her life.
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- Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica
- Researcher, 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 populations. His research includes studies on the prevalence of child maltreatment and the relationship between foster care placement and children's outcomes, as well as on the impacts of youth employment programs and barriers faced by community college students. He is also a research affiliate at the Youth Policy Lab and the Education Policy Initiative.
Max earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan where he was an Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow. Before graduate school, he earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland.
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
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Megan Foster Friedman is the Managing Director of the Youth Policy Lab. In this role, Megan provides global project oversight, manages YPL's internal operations and systems, and provides day-to-day staff supervision. Megan joined YPL as a senior project manager in 2019, where she managed evaluations related to maternal health, infant health, and adolescent mental health. She moved to YPL's leadership team in 2023 and began serving as Managing Director in January 2024.
Before joining the Youth Policy Lab, Megan was a senior healthcare analyst at the Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan, a David Bohnett Public Service and Leadership Fellow in the office of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, and a legislative aide for U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA). With experience in various levels of government and a broad knowledge of policy issues that impact the health of Michigan communities, she is passionate about translating complex topics into digestible and actionable information, helping government programs better serve individuals, and lifting up the voices and priorities of communities that have historically been excluded from and harmed by the policymaking process.
Megan holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor's degree in International Politics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Outside of work, Megan enjoys cooking, gardening, traveling, following Formula 1 racing, and exploring Michigan's natural beauty with her husband, Nate, and their dog, Murphy.
Job Titles:
- Data & Policy Fellow ( DPSCD )
Megan is a youth development professional with a passion for supporting adolescent mental health. Megan has used evidence-based therapeutic and conflict resolution practices to engage with K-12 youth across multiple roles, including as an AmeriCorps VISTA. She has provided individual and group mental health support, developed curriculums, implemented trauma-informed practices, and used data to inform her advocacy for programmatic change to better support youth needs.
Megan holds an MSW with a concentration in Child and Family Welfare from the University of Michigan, and a BA in International Relations from Durham University.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School
- Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
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Megan Tompkins-Stange is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School. Her expertise is on the influence of private and philanthropic actors within public education, and on the rise of market-based, managerial school reform, particularly the politics of charter schools. She is the author of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence (Harvard Education Press, 2016) and the forthcoming Value Added: How Evaluating Teachers Became A Big Idea (under contract, University of Chicago Press). At the Ford School, she teaches courses on public and nonprofit management, qualitative research methods, values and ethics, and an experiential philanthropy class in partnership with the Philanthropy Lab and Poverty Solutions.
Mengyang is a third-year undergraduate student in University of Michigan. He is majoring in math and economics and hope to pursue a Phd in economics. His research interest is in labor economics and he is currently working on his honor thesis about gender wage gap. In his spare time, he likes cooking, Jogging and
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- Assistant Prof at University of Nebraska
- Public Economist
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Michael is an applied public economist working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research applies theory and econometrics to analyze the welfare implications of government programs, including education, energy, and other public goods.
He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and will be joining the Economics Department at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in Fall 2023
Milagros holds a master of public policy degree from the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a bachelor's and a master's degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Prior to joining the Youth Policy Lab, Milagros had government work-related experiences that focused on education policy issues in the rural context as well as on the quality assessment policies of higher education institutions. On top of her government experience, she also has a very strong international development background from working at the World Bank at the Latin-America and South Asia Chief Economist offices.
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- Student Research Assistant
Nathan is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Economics. His current research focuses on the effects of participation in Career and Technical Education on the educational outcomes of students with Individualized Education Plans, and the role of relational demography in teacher attrition. Prior to starting graduate school at U of M, Nathan was a senior research analyst at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and earned his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan.
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- Student Research Assistant
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Paloma is a first year MPP student at the Ford School of Public Policy. Paloma lived most of her life in Northern California, but spent a portion of her childhood in Mexico. Paloma attended community college prior to transferring to UC Davis where she majored in Political Science with a minor in Latin American studies. Paloma worked as an intern at the Mexican Consulate in Sacramento analysing different laws or bills that would impact the Mexican community. Paloma is passionate about equitable education access for lower-income and migrant students, and fair labor practices for migrants.
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- Student Research Assistant
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Rachel is a current junior undergraduate student, majoring in English and minoring in Crime & Justice at the University of Michigan. Her main goals focus on thinking "outside the box" in terms of policies and programs that benefit children and adolescents in order to confront the cycle of the criminal justice system. Rachel is the vice president of the U of M chapter of Project Sunshine and before her current role as a research assistant at the Youth Policy Lab, was an intern at the Oakland County Conviction Integrity Unit.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Faculty Co - Director & Founder
- Research Professor at the Survey Research Center
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Robin Jacob is a Research Professor at the Survey Research Center at Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and a faculty Co-Director of the Youth Policy Lab. She has 15 years of experience conducting randomized trials and quasi-experimental evaluations of social interventions, in a variety of different contexts. Her evaluations have targeted a wide range of outcomes including literacy, math, and social-emotional competencies, executive functioning skills, and health related outcomes and have included evaluations of federal initiatives, programs developed by nonprofit organizations, as well as those developed by for-profit service providers. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and numerous private foundations. She received a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.
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- Assistant
- Research Scientist
- Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan 's Institute for Social Research
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Sandra Tang is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. She splits her time working on the Maternal Infant Health Program with the Youth Policy Lab and education and data sharing projects at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Sandra has over a decade of experience working with colleagues across disciplines in academic, applied, and policy research settings. Her main research interests focus on a) understanding how to promote children's positive developmental and educational outcomes, particularly for those who are at higher risk of poor outcomes, and b) how to responsibly use data to expand knowledge and improve people's lives. Sandra earned her PhD in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College where she was a Diversity Fellow, and completed an NICHD postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan.
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- Data & Policy Fellow
- Data & Policy Fellow ( Home Visiting Unit )
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Sara Elhasan is a Data & Policy Fellow for the Youth Policy Lab. She holds an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, as well as a BS in Public Health and BA in Sociology from Wayne State University. Prior to joining YPL, Sara was an ORISE Fellow with the Centers for Disease Control's Applied Research and Translation team. An avid researcher, Sara has trained with the National Institutes of Health, Ronald E. McNair Scholars, and Columbia University, and has served as a legislative intern at the Michigan House of Representatives. Sara is passionate about giving back to her community, and hopes to contribute to the movement that corrects health inequities and to further investigate the ways in which one's social, political, cultural, and economic circumstances influence health and well-being. Outside of work, you can find Sara spending time with her family, traveling, or attending a concert!
She is embedded in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Home Visiting Unit.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan
- Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Sara Heller is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan and studies interventions to reduce crime and improve other life outcomes among disadvantaged youth. She uses large-scale experiments to isolate the causal effects of a variety of programs, including cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions and summer jobs. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a M.P.P. from Georgetown, and a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard.
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- Data & Policy Fellow
- Data & Policy Fellow, MDLEO
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Sophie is a Data & Policy Fellow for the Youth Policy Lab. She holds a MSW with a focus on Policy and Program Evaluation from the University of Michigan and a BA in English and Women's Studies from Marist College. Prior to joining YPL, Sophie was a research analyst at the Detroit Justice Center and a program coordinator for the Goodwill Employment Center's reentry program in Grand Rapids.
Sophie has spent the last seven years advocating for changes to Michigan's criminal legal system in both her professional and personal spheres. She is passionate about using data and research to help create more equitable communities for everyone, particularly people who have been impacted by our criminal legal systems. In her spare time, you can find Sophie knitting sweaters, sewing clothes, growing vegetables and spending time with her four-legged best friend, Freddie.
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- Researcher
- Researcher, Mathematica
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Stacey Brockman is a Researcher in the Human Services Division at Mathematica. Her scholarship
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- Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
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- Student Research Assistant