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Maya Alkateb-Chami

CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)

INTERESTS: Language-In-Education Policy, Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, Epistemic Injustice, Refugee Education

Maya Alkateb-Chami’s research is concerned with the role of schooling in fostering equitable and just futures, with a focus on language of instruction policies in multilingual contexts.

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Lily An

CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)

INTERESTS: Measurement, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation, Accountability Policy, Equity, Fairness

Lily An studies educational measurement and causal inference as a Ph.D. student and Presidential Scholar at HGSE. Her research involves analyzing and improving standardized assessments, policies, and evaluation methods that involve test scores.

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Mamfatou Baldeh

CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)

INTERESTS: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Black, Adolescence, Intersectionality, Interventions, Relationships

Mamfatou Baldeh is a Ph.D. student in the AERID lab working with Dr. Adriana Umana-Taylor. Her research interests center the education, identity development, and relationship-building experiences of adolescent Black girls and other students of color.

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D'Wayne Bell

CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)

INTERESTS: Higher Education, Inequality, Policy, College Access, Mobility

D'Wayne Bell is interested in higher education, inequality, and higher education policy. He is especially interested in the role that higher education plays in reducing, or reproducing, inequality.

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Megan Bogia

CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)

INTERESTS: Higher Education, Policy, Ethics

Megan Bogia's research centers on policy ethics and higher education. Specifically, she combines empirical and normative analyses to examine dilemmas in postsecondary policy like issues of college access and the free public college debate.

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Edwin Chng

CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)

INTERESTS: Multimodal Learning Analytics, Educational Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Computer Vision

Edwin Chng is a Ph.D. student at Harvard. His research interest lies in the extraction of relevant student information from classrooms to support evidence-based intervention strategies.

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Jorge Cuartas

CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)

INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Violence Against Children, Physical Punishment, Causal Inference, Impact Evaluation, Parenting Programs, Prevention

Jorge Cuartas' research focuses on early childhood development and parenting in global contexts, the effects of corporal punishment and other forms of violence on children's neural, cognitive, and socioemotional development, and the development and evaluation of violence prevention programs.

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Caitlin Dermody

CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)

INTERESTS: Early Childhood Education and Care, Policy, Social and Emotional Learning, Early Learning, Emotions, Systems Thinking

Caitlin M. Dermody is a rising scholar committed to investigating the pedagogical practices and policy conditions that best support young children’s development. Her research interests include early childhood education and care and social and emotional learning.

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Mikayla My Do

CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)

INTERESTS: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural, Mixed Methods, Career Development

Mikayla My Do's research focuses broadly on the development of adolescents, the transition from adolescence into adulthood, and the social, cultural contexts in studying positive youth development.

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Jorge Encinas

CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)

INTERESTS: Higher Education Policy, Economics, Immigration, Workforce Development,

Jorge Encinas researches postsecondary success policies, as well as the transition from college to the labor market through an economic lens. He focuses on how these policies affect underrepresented minorities and undocumented students.

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