Mary Soledad Craig is a PhD student in Government and Social Policy. She studies American Race and Ethnic Politics, with an interest in how inequality affects local and urban policy-making, in particular, education policy. Prior to joining Harvard, Mary...
Benjamin Waldman is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University. He studies American political development, focusing on the growth of the administrative state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using archival methods, network analysis, and...
Brianna Alderman is an Economics PhD student, and a Theodore H. Ashford Fellow at Harvard University. She is from Gainesville, Florida, and graduated in May of 2023 with a B.A. in Economics, B.S. in Mathematics, and B.S. in Statistics from the University...
Dylan Nguyen is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Policy. Broadly interested in spatial inequality, their research seeks to understand how relationships between race and place shape people’s opportunity structures.
Dan Ma is a first-generation college graduate with a research agenda focused on improving the lives of individuals in marginalized communities who face systemic inequities. Prior to beginning his PhD in Public Policy at Harvard, Dan completed his...
Jostin Kitmang studies how educational policies, including public universities and financial aid interventions, can serve as vehicles for social mobility for low-income students and their families and increase diversity at the top end of the income...
Kseniya Dzhala is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. Drawing on qualitative methods, her research examines how supply-side actors navigate political institutions and negotiate governance over rental housing.
Nadia Bell is a PhD student in the Methods for Policy Research track of the Health Policy program. Her research interests are in improving evidence based policymaking practices in health policy and ensuring vulnerable populations have dignified...
Jesus De Luna is a PhD student in the Psychology Department. He is studying the psychological mechanisms that shape how people perceive and respond to economic inequality and wealth redistribution. His research focuses on attitudes toward the poor and the...