Elizabeth Pelletier

Elizabeth Pelletier started the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management in 2018. Her research interests include anti-poverty policy, criminal justice policy, and economic and social inequality. Prior to joining the program, Elizabeth was a researcher at the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where she used data on state criminal justice systems to inform policy debates about mass incarceration and justice reform. Before that, she researched education funding in Canadian provinces as a Fulbright grantee at the University of Toronto. Elizabeth earned her bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Film Studies from the College of William & Mary in 2014.