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) Fellow Alum

Doctoral Student

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Research Interest: Accountability policy, causal inference & policy analysis, educational measurement Dissertation Committee: Andrew Ho, Luke Miratrix, Carrie Conaway Job Market Paper: Using Gaussian Process Regression in Two-Dimensional Regression...

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...

Catherine Armstrong Asher

Assistant Research Scientist, Youth Policy Lab, University of Michigan

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow Alum

PIER Summer Residency Placement: Fulton County Schools (GA) Website

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

Vice President of Evidence and Evaluation, Arnold Ventures

PARTNERING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) FELLOW ALUM

PIER Summer Residency Placement: New Jersey Department of Education Website

Elizabeth Balch-Crystal

PARTNERING IN EDUCATION RESEARCH (PIER) FELLOW

DOCTORAL STUDENT

Faculty Mentor: Heather Hill

Anthony Bald

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow Alum

Doctoral Student

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Research interests: Labor economics, health economics, and economic history Dissertation Committee: Marcella Alsan, Christopher Avery, Peter Blair, Claudia Goldin PIER Faculty Mentor: Christopher Avery PIER Internship Partner: Prince William County Public...

Mamfatou Baldeh

Partnering in Education Research (PIER) Fellow

Doctoral Student

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Faculty Mentors: Adriana Umana-Taylor & Chris Avery

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...

Johanna Barmore

Research Assistant

Doctoral Student

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Johanna Barmore is a doctoral student in the education policy, leadership, and instructional practice concentration at the Harvard Graduate Sch ool of Education. Her research interests include examining how policy impacts teachers' instructional practice...