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Claudia Persico's picture
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Claudia Persico is an applied policy scholar whose research focuses on environmental policy, inequality, health and education policy using causal inference methods. Persico is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an IZA Institute of Labor Economics Research Affiliate, and a Research Affiliate with the with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her research has recently been featured in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. Her current work examines the social and biological mechanisms underlying the relationships between poverty, the environment, and children’s cognitive development and health. In particular, much of her current research focuses on how early exposure to environmental pollution can cause inequality by affecting child and adult health, development, behavior, and academic achievement. She has also studied how school funding impacts long term outcomes, how school segregation affects racial disproportionalities in special education, and how childhood exposure to pollution affects academic outcomes. Her research has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, the Atlantic, and many other major media outlets. She was formerly an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Suat Cubukcu's picture
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Dr. Suat Cubukcu (Ph.D., American University) is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at American University in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on policing, terrorism, extremism, and disinformation.
Zeynep Engin's picture
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Researcher - Data for Policy and Algorithmic Governance
Mat Collinson's picture
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I'm a criminologist with a background in public mental health, I currently work for JLUSA training formerly incarcerated and other people directly impacted by the US justice system, on leadership, advocacy, and how to lead change and reform in our justice system.
Pantelis Koutroumpis's picture
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Pantelis Koutroumpis is a Lead Researcher in the Oxford Martin Programme of Technological and Economic Change at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Pantelis' main research interests are industrial economics and public policy.
Laurence Antao's picture
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PhD student (LSE Department of Government) studying the use of information in policy design, specifically within the realm of conflict.
Sarah Radcliffe's picture
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I am a development geographer, with extensive fieldwork and research experience in the Andes, particularly Ecuador and Peru. My work focuses on postcolonial intersectional hierarchies and their exclusionary interfaces with policymaking and development outcomes.
Jayme Johnson's picture
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With experience in policing and transportation, I specialize in public sector reform and improvement, delivering operational improvement to business processes, standards, performance and culture.
Ariel Perkins's picture
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Early career researcher in comparative politics (PhD Government 2023, London School of Economics and Political Science). Prior professional experience as a researcher on strategies and innovation in outcomes-focused social policy procurement.
Carolyn Cameron's picture
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Civil rights counsel - formerly with the House Committee on Education and Labor. Working to ensure equity considering Future of Work and health disparities, especially post-pandemic and recovery.

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