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Owen is a Ph.D. student in Economics and Public Policy with research interests in tax policy and energy economics. Before coming to graduate school, he worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board’s Macro-Finance group. He received a…

Theo is getting his PhD in Public Policy & Economics. His research interests include the economic impacts of climate change, labor and health aspects of migration, and development economics. He has previously worked for the Climate Impact Lab and the…

Katie Laursen is a PhD student in Economics and Public Policy. Her research interests are primarily in the economics of education and labor economics. Katie grew up in California and she graduated with highest honors from UC Davis in 2021 with a BA…

Shekinah is a joint PhD student in Public Policy and Political Science. Prior to coming to Michigan, she graduated with her B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Furman University in 2020. She is broadly interested in religion and politics,…

Karla Magaña is a joint Ph.D. student in Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is an APSA Diversity Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, broadly specializing in the racialization of the United States…

Parker graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Economics & Management. Upon graduation, he worked as a high school adviser with the Carolina College Advising Corps. Parker served in Wilson, NC, and worked to…

Franshelly M. Martínez-Ortiz is a PhD student in Political Science at Gerald Ford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on broad topics of Race and Ethnicity, Political Behavior and American Public Opinion. She is currently working on…

Katherine Richard is a PhD Candidate in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She employs applied econometric techniques to understand how low income households make ends meet over short time horizons. Her prior joint…

Margarita is a doctoral student in the joint program of Public Policy and Sociology. Her research interests focus on inequalities, development, and Science and Technology Studies. She plans to study of the bureaucratics of poverty governance in Latin…

Jasmine completed her B.A. in Sociology with honors distinction at Yale University in 2014.  After graduating, she became a researcher in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute studying assisted housing…

Malcolm is a student in the joint Public Policy and Economics PhD program.   He studies the economics of the construction and maintenance of caste systems such as race and applications of intersectionality in understanding collective action…

Brittany Vasquez is a PhD student in Public Policy & Sociology with broad interests in education policy, stratification, and quantitative methods. She is a fellow in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research with the Education Policy Initiative,…

Dyanne Vaught is a PhD candidate in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, with interests in international trade, macroeconomics, and trade and foreign policy. Her research focuses on the impacts of temporary trade policies,…