Ph.D. Students & Candidates
October 3, 2022
Jiayuan Wang
Jiayuan joined the PhD program in 2022. Her research interests are primarily in public and development economics and covers policy topics including education, family planning, taxation, technology adoption and women’s empowerment. In her work, she applies the following lenses: First, how the way individuals perceive their identity shapes their behaviors and preferences. Second, how categories…
September 27, 2022
Arielle Weaver
Arielle Weaver joined the Evans School Ph.D. Program in Public Policy & Management in 2021. Broadly, Arielle’s research interests are aligned with addressing issues of social equity, access, and opportunity for marginalized populations with an emphasis on women of color. Arielle seeks to bring a critical lens to her research, drawing attention to racial disparities…
August 29, 2022
Vance Larsen
Vance Larsen started the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management in 2016. Prior to joining the program, he earned a Master of Science in Consumer Behavior at Purdue University, where he was involved in research on financial services for the poor in Colombia and Taiwan. Vance also holds a Bachelor of Business…
April 25, 2022
Isaiah Wright
Isaiah Wright began his Ph.D. journey with Evans in 2021. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) as well as a Masters in Public Policy from UCR as well. Prior to Evans he worked for Rady’s Children’s hospital in San Diego, CA as a contractor to the County…
March 14, 2022
Reed Humphrey
Reed Humphrey entered the Evans School Ph.D. program in Public Policy and Management in the autumn of 2021. As a collaborator on the Managing Future Risk of Increasing Simultaneous Megafires project, which takes a convergent research approach to improving wildfire management, Reed has worked extensively with officials at the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center to develop…
February 23, 2021
Will von Geldern
Will von Geldern joined the Evans School Ph.D. program in 2020. Prior to Evans, Will worked in nonprofit management and policy advocacy in India, New York City, and Seattle. His past research has focused on political mobilization, nonprofit advocacy, and evidence-based reforms in criminal justice and social policy.
Nick Hadjimichael
Nicholas “Nick” Hadjimichael joined the Ph.D. program at the Evans School in 2020. Prior to the doctoral program, he earned a Master of Public Policy Analysis from the University of Southern California (USC) Sol Price School of Public Policy. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies and in Economics from the…
Katherine Cheng
Katherine R. Cheng joined the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance in 2020. Her research centers on co-governance and local climate policy, with a focus on identifying approaches that support community-informed strategies for climate adaptation. Her dissertation examines how counties across the U.S. collaborate with community partners to develop and implement efforts to combat…
Sunniva Bloem
Sunniva Bloem started her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance in 2020. Prior to joining the program, Sunniva worked for six years in the development sector and has published on urban food and health system issues. Sunniva has worked for UN institutions such as The United…
June 15, 2020
Ellyn (Ellie) Terry
Ellie Terry started the Evans School Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and Management in 2019. Her research focuses on policies that promote economic mobility, including the social safety net, health policy, and postsecondary education policy. She specializes in analyzing social policy problems through economic and psychological lenses. Her dissertation research examines the mechanisms behind child…
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