Ada Umenwaliri has 18 years of experience in public policy and international development, focusing on economic reforms, governance, and supporting marginalized communities. She’s passionate about social entrepreneurship and building partnerships that drive meaningful change. As the Associate Director of the … Read more

Michael Kavanagh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina. His research interests include urban real estate, community redevelopment, the mechanisms that state and local governments can use to increase affordable housing … Read more

Vivian Limbe is a PhD student with over a decade of experience working with the government of Malawi as a Principal Social Welfare Officer. He has been instrumental in implementing a range of social welfare and social protection programs, including … Read more

Alonna Despain is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Public Policy. Her research interests focus on policy applications of the UN Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, gender and climate security, and environmental peacebuilding. Prior to her doctoral studies, … Read more

Faith Kanjira is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy focusing on Health Policy, Bioethics, and Human Rights. Prior to joining our doctoral program, she worked as a Regulatory Coordinator at the Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases at UNC, … Read more

Laraib is a doctoral student at the Department of Public Policy. Her interests include how affordable and stable housing impacts life outcomes, and the role housing plays in adolescents’ development through life. She is particularly interested in how data analytics … Read more

Manuel Schechtl is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Schechtl is a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center and a Research Affiliate with the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification … Read more

Maria Carnovale studies under what conditions technology maximizes well-being without negatively impacting individuals and communities and how policies can foster this process. She has written about the social and ethical implications of digital platforms, digital contact tracing, and more recently … Read more

Natalie Brownie, from Apex, NC, graduated from UNC in May 2024 with a B.A. in Public Policy and United States History at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently a Master of Public Policy student at the University of North Carolina at … Read more

Alevtina Newman is a graduate student in the UNC-CH Master of Public Policy program from Lenoir, North Carolina. In the MPP, Alevtina is on the Policy Design and Impact track, with a focus on Health Policy, Bioethics, and Human Rights. … Read more