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Cassandra Arroyo is a doctoral student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) and an IES Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. As a Mexicana-Boricua scholar, her research focuses on the intersection of…

Nate Bauer is a doctoral candidate in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the School of Education. Nate’s focus of study is public policy in postsecondary education, and he is very interested in financial aid policy and…

Micah Baum is a PhD student in Public Policy & Economics and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. He is interested in the interactions between public education, geographic inequality, and local labor markets. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant…

Jordy Berne is a PhD student in economics and an Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral fellow. His research interests include child development, economic mobility, and the economics of education. He’s particularly interested in these areas as…

Elizabeth Burland is a doctoral candidate in sociology and public policy at the University of Michigan. Her research uses both quantitative causal inference methods and qualitative methods to understand how students make postsecondary decisions, how…

Alvin Christian is a PhD student in Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the economics of education, development economics, and gender equality. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at…

Kristen Cummings is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the School of Education. Her research interests include state higher education policy, financial aid, and the role of geography in college…

KC Deane is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on institutional improvement at broad-access two- and four-year…

Shauna Dyer is a doctoral student in ​sociology at the University of Michigan and an IES predoctoral fellow. Her research interests include social mobility, employment insecurity and higher education. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in ​social…

Lindsay Leasor is a doctoral student in higher education and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include higher education policy and finance, labor economics, and career and technical education. She holds a…

Katherine Leu is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, as well as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.  Her research interests include higher education, social stratification, and the sociology of…

Shekinah Lightner 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 racial and…

Anna Paulson is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research interests center on the effects of post-secondary curriculum on students,…

Shwetha Raghuraman is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include economics of education, industrial organization, and labor economics; in particular, she is interested in the industrial organization of…

Josh Skiles is a doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. His research interests include the evaluation and design of policies and interventions…

Nathan Sotherland is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. His fields of interest are labor economics, public finance, and the economics of education. His current research focuses on the effects that…

Matthew Truwit is a graduate student pursuing his doctorate in quantitative research methods in education and a master’s in statistics at the University of Michigan. He seeks to incorporate a comprehensive perspective on the developmental role of…

Brittany Vasquez is a doctoral student in public policy and sociology and an IES predoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her fields of interest include economic inequality, mobility, and sociology of education. She holds a bachelor of arts…

Tiffany Wu is a doctoral student in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology (CPEP) at the University of Michigan and is pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Statistics. She is interested in exploring the role of executive functioning and…