Ph.D. Students & Candidates
October 4, 2024
Laura Prokić
Laura Prokić joined the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management in Autumn 2024. Her primary research interests are managing processes of change within public organizations that can facilitate greater public participation and equity, as well as public affairs education. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she taught research methods for public affairs…
October 2, 2024
Srinithya Nagarajan
Srinithya (Sri) Nagarajan is a Ph.D. student at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington. Her current research interests are decision science, organizational behaviours, and contracting, particularly examining incentive structures, procurement rules, and behaviour aspects that influence decision-making processes within public organizations. She is also interested in how policymakers navigate trade-offs…
September 24, 2024
Rebecca Toole
Becca joined the Evans School Ph.D. Program in Public Policy & Management in 2024. Broadly, her research interests lie at the intersection of agricultural technology adoption and climate adaptation decisions. Prior to enrolling at Evans, Becca worked as a Research Scientist at the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR), University of Washington, managing…
September 20, 2024
Anna Kenig-Ziesler
Anna Kenig-Ziesler entered the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management in the Fall of 2024. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and social policy, specifically considering environmental policy through a justice lens. In the past, her research has focused on racial disparities in exposure to air pollution. Prior…
September 29, 2023
Yu-Heng Jung
Yu-Heng Jung started his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at the Evans School in 2023. He is interested in the profound impact of rapidly evolving technology and decision-making tools on governance, administration, and society. His research focuses on bureaucratic responsiveness and professionalism, the digital transformation of government, the role of social media in political…
Nnenna Ogbonnaya-Orji
Nnenna commenced her Ph.D. studies in Public Policy and Management in 2023. She has an MSc in Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development from the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom and a BSc in Economics from Covenant University, Nigeria. Prior to joining the Evans School, she worked as a Researcher at the Central Bank of…
John Downes
John Downes joined the Evans School PhD program in Public Policy and Management in Autumn 2023. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies he worked as a Research Associate in the International Development Division of the American Institutes for Research, assisting on a diverse portfolio of projects and proposals on topics including early childhood development, gender…
October 3, 2022
Mark Nepf
Mark joined the Evans School Ph.D. program in Autumn 2022. His research interests center around environmental justice and marine policy. Prior to joining the doctoral program, Mark worked for the Environmental Protection Agency (assessing equity within the Brownfields program), the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (evaluating the influence of coastal water quality impairments on…
Lizzie Tong
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Tong joined the Evans School in the Fall of 2022. Their research examines how public and place-based policies shape economic opportunity and upward mobility for low-income households. More recently, she has focused on the role of social, cultural, and community factors in influencing the construction of “structurally transformative” policy. Lizzie applies an interdisciplinary…
Julia Karon
Julia Karon joined the Evans School PhD Program in the Fall of 2022. Her research focuses on understanding structural barriers to employment. This includes projects examining geographic variation in early care and education (ECE) provision and understanding how spatial proximity to jobs and job training varies across populations. Her primary interest is the design and…
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