David J. Amaral is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focusses on local politics and policy, urban neighborhoods, poverty, inequality, and political participation.

Michele Cadigan is a PhD candidate of sociology at the University of Washington. Cadigan's work brings together frameworks from economic sociology, law and society, and criminal justice research to understand the relationship between markets and the criminal justice system and how race is implicated at the intersection of these institutions.

Christina Nefili Caramanis is a doctoral candidate at UT Austin. Christina's research program uses advanced quantitative methods to examine how the social and economic context of the families, in part shaped by the surrounding sociopolitical agenda, lead to the social reproduction of inequalities across the life course.

Andreas de Barros is a PhD candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and a principal investigator at J-PAL South Asia. His research specializes in program evaluation and evidence-based education policy in less developed countries.

Daniel Driscoll is a PhD candidate in sociology at UCSD. Several key questions motivate his research: Why do some states, institutions, and people fight for the environment, while others do not? And What explains how, in some places but not others, movements and policies emerge in response to climate change?

Benjamin Elbers is a PhD candidate in sociology at Columbia University. His research focuses on inequality and stratification, with a special interest in school segregation and the connection between educational systems and labor markets. In his dissertation, he develops and applies new decomposition methods for segregation analysis.

Natalia Emanuel is a PhD Candidate in the Economics Department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on personnel economics.

Prior to graduate study, Natalia received a BA in Economics at Yale University and an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Policy from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar.

Michael Evangelist is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan. His work examines the social determinants of trust in society. He is currently investigating the potential for the punitive administration of public programs to undermine social trust.

Shannon Malone Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests are criminology and social policy, and her research incorporates an intersectional analysis into the study of policing. Using mixed-methods, her dissertation investigates black women's experiences with police across social class.

Hunter Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Claremont Graduate University. His research interests are in law and economics, particularly issues pertaining to criminal justice. His recent research pertains to how differences in the composition of law enforcement affect outcomes related to crime rates, arrests, and the use of force.

Navin Kumar is a PhD candidate at the Yale University Sociology Department. He centers on improving health outcomes in marginalized communities. He focuses on increasing uptake of gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among gay men. Related work explores how social networks affect retention among patients receiving treatment for opioid use disorder.

​Joe LaBriola is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on two broad themes: how socioeconomically advantaged families maintain and extend their advantages, and how precarious work conditions increasingly affect marginalized populations. His current work explores the intersection of local housing policy and wealth inequality.

Sadé Lindsay is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research interests span prisoner reentry and employment, incarceration and health, and drug use and policy. Her dissertation investigates how certifications earned in prison influence formerly incarcerated men's ability to secure employment upon release, particularly examining the effects of contradictory signals on post-prison labor market outcomes.

Tim McDonald is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on methods for designing policy for large systems and the application of these methods to socially important systems such as health, the economy, and national defense. He has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.

​Molly Merrill-Francis is a Health Policy and Management doctoral candidate at JHSPH. Her research interest is using mixed methods to examine the intersection of social determinants of health and injury and violence prevention. She also holds an MPH in Health Behavior from UNC Chapel Hill.

​Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins is a PhD candidate in Human Development & Family Studies at Purdue University, studying contexts and consequences unique to non-voluntary, state-mandated child protective interventions – including the role of state/federal policies (and community-level implementation thereof) on both lived experiences and longitudinal outcomes for state-supervised children and parents.

​Stephanie Casey Pierce is a doctoral candidate at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State. Her current research uses mixed methods to investigate the dynamics of eviction and recidivism and tenants’ perceptions of causes of eviction. She holds an MPP from Georgetown University.

​Daniel Prinz is a PhD student at Harvard University. He studies the economics of social insurance programs, conducting empirical research on disability insurance programs in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and on the Medicaid and Medicare programs.

​Owen Schochet is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. His research uses rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental methods to examine the effectiveness of publicly-funded early childhood education programs in promoting the development of low-income children, including through their effects on parents’ human capital and parenting skills.

Jessica C. Smith is a third year doctoral student in the Public Policy and Administration Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she also received her M.S. in Criminal Justice. Jessica's research focuses on school safety and threat assessment. Her research is informed by her prior experience in state government.

​Noémie Sportiche is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University, where she studies interactions between urban policies, urban development, and health. Her dissertation examines how housing markets impact health. Previously, Noémie earned degrees in cognitive science and public health and spent four years working as an urban planner.

​Arielle W. Tolman is a JD/PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University and a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She received her BA in Sociology and Neuroscience and Behavior from Wesleyan University in 2010 and her MA in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2015.

​Matt Unrath is a PhD candidate in public policy at UC Berkeley and a Research Fellow at the California Policy Lab. His research focuses on households' interactions with transfer policies and means-tested programs. Matt holds a MPP from UC Berkeley and a BA in International Studies from Boston College.

Fabricio Vasselai is a dual PhD candidate in Political Science and Scientific Computing at University of Michigan. A MICDE Fellow 2018-2019, he is currently a researcher at UMICH's Center for Political Studies and Center for Complex Systems. 

Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate at the department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests lie within the intersection of ethnic politics, political psychology, an intergroups conflict, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Chagai's research as been published by Governance and Political Geography.