Giovanny R. Alvarez earned both his BA in Political Science and his MA in Political Studies, at the Universidad Nacional of Colombia. Recently, Giovanny was a Rotary Peace Fellow, and received an MA in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Giovanny … Read more

Abhik Kumar Pramanik is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Public Policy with a particular interest in studying the economic impact of international government interventions in developing countries. Abhik graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015, with … Read more

Audrey Pereira is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy. Her work focuses on understanding socio-economic pathways to improve health outcomes and reduce gender inequalities in developing countries. Prior to entering our doctoral program, Audrey worked at the International Food Policy … Read more

Joonho is a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the institutional and social contexts that foster the emergence and growth of groundbreaking entrepreneurial ideas and promising ventures. In … Read more

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New Mexico, and is an alumnus of the RWJF doctoral fellows program. His … Read more

Senator James Sasser has spent more than a quarter-century in public life, as a Senator from Tennessee and Ambassador of the United States to the People’s Republic of China. During his time in Beijing from 1996 to 1999, he played … Read more

Elizabeth Sasser has a B.A. and an M.P.P. from Duke University, and studied at Peking University in Beijing, China, where she developed a fluency in Mandarin. Sasser served as a policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy through the … Read more

Mehdi Shadmehr is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. Prior to joining UNC, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary (2016-2020), and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Miami Herbert School of … Read more

Michael A. Stegman is a Bipartisan Policy Center fellow who focuses on housing finance reform and affordable housing. He formerly served for more than four years in senior housing policy roles in the Obama administration. He served as a senior … Read more

Dr. Jessica Houston Su is a sociologist who studies American family life and inequality. As a family demographer, she uses a sociological lens and quantitative analytic techniques to examine social patterns of family formation and how they are related to … Read more