Peter Bucchianeri is a Ph.D student in government and social policy. His research interests include U.S. elections, state and local politics, and the political economy of various social policies. Prior to attending Harvard, he received his B.A. in political science from UCLA and his M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Diana Draghici is a doctoral student pursuing a joint degree in Government and Social Policy. Her major field of substantive interest is American politics, and her research agenda places a particular emphasis on aspects pertaining to American political economy (electoral competition, legislative behavior, policymaking). Her methodological interests are causal inference, graphical methods, Bayesian statistics, and data visualization. 

Sarah is a first-year doctoral student in Government and Social Policy.  She is interested in the sense of political efficacy within low income communities and how that impacts families' access to education, mental health care, and adequate nutrition. Sarah is also particularly interested in the impact of education on civic engagement for students in low income communities.

Prior to Harvard, Sarah worked in K-12 education for 5 years, first as a high school teacher, and most recently as a high school principal.  

Before working in schools, Sarah graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Plan II Honors and Government. Her undergraduate thesis, which examined the relationship between various history curricula and eventual civic engagement, won UT's William Jennings Bryan Prize in Government.  Sarah also holds an M.Ed. from Boston University.

Audrey Latura is a PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy. Her research focuses on how social policy attitudes change at the individual level, comparative work family policy, and female professional advancement, particularly in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the United States. 

Audrey received an MA in International Relations from Yale University and a BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Departmental Distinction.  She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. 

Gabrielle is a graduate student in Harvard's joint Social Policy and Government Ph.D. program. Her research interests include political psychology and behavior, the formation and durability of political attitudes, and the role of religious beliefs in shaping Americans' attitudes about inequality and redistribution. Gabrielle received her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Indiana University in 2015.