People

Atnre Alleyne

Co-founder and CEO, TeenSHARP

Founder, The Proximity Project

Atnre Alleyne is the co-founder and CEO of TeenSHARP, an organization that prepares students of color for top colleges and leadership. Atnre previously founded and led an education advocacy organization — DelawareCAN: The Delaware Campaign for Achievement...

Tolga Alper

tolga_alper@gse.harvard.edu

Grants Manager

Tolga Alper is the Grants Manager at CEPR.

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Lily An

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship Alumna

Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methodology, Georgia State University

Desmond Ang

PIER Fellowship Faculty Mentor

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School

Desmond Ang is an applied economist and assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is particularly interested in the intersection of race, education and government. His research examines the educational and political ramifications...

Sophia Applegate

Manager of Research Partnerships and Outreach

Sophia Applegate is the Manager of Research Partnerships and Outreach at the Center for Education Policy Research. As part of this work, Sophia runs the Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship program, coordinates research partnerships across...

Catherine Armstrong Asher

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship Alumna

Assistant Research Scientist, Youth Policy Lab, University of Michigan

Christopher Avery

Co-Principal Investigator, CEPR Faculty Steering Committee, SDP Fellowship Faculty Advisor, PIER Fellowship Faculty Mentor

Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy and Management

Harvard Kennedy School

Christopher Avery teaches analytic courses in microeconomics and statistics. He studies rating and selection mechanisms, focusing on the college admissions system. His first book, The Early Admissions Game, coauthored with Andrew Fairbanks and Richard...

Andrew Bacher-Hicks

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship Alumna

Vice President of Evidence and Evaluation, Arnold Ventures

Elizabeth Balch-Crystal

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow

Doctoral Student

Anthony Bald

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship Alumna

Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University, Fullerton

Mamfatou Baldeh

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellowship Alumna

Doctoral Student

Robert Balfanz

SDP Fellowship Faculty Advisor

Research Professor

Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Robert Balfanz is a research professor at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, where he is co-director of the Talent Development Secondary reform model and director of the Everyone Graduates...