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to separate the names with a dash and without spaces, upload your headshot into /assets/img/team/ - - leave this window open in a separate tab for easy copy/pasting later -3) have two windows/tabs open - this instructional readme, and then the _team folder on github -4) click "create new file" in the upper right corner -5) in the text box following /assets/_team/, enter in: - - your first and last name, separated by a dash - - ".md" to ensure the page formats correctly - - EXAMPLE: alyssa-galik.md -6) copy and paste the text below this numbered list (beginning with ---, being sure to include the three dashes (---) in line 1) into the new page you created in the separate tab. NOTE: the text following the colons (:) below has been maintained as an example, and additional notes have been provided following the arrows <<--. -7) Per instructions next to the arrows (<<--), update information for your project and paste in content from project slide where instructed -8) remove all notes pasted in to the form (including <<-- and comments) -9) commit changes -10) confirm the new bio is loaded correctly and that the headshot is centered. If not, crop the headshot to be centered and reupload it with the same file title. - - ---- -name: Allyson Barnett <<-- Insert your name here -image: /assets/img/team/allyson-barnett.jpg <<-- copy and paste this line in from the header of where you uploaded your headshot -year: <<-- for each year you have been with the team (calendar year, not FY), enter the years below, being sure to separate with a new line and a dash as shown below - - 2016 - - 2017 -agency: <<-- List all agencies you have collaborated with on projects with OES. Please review the team page at oes.gsa.gov/team/ to make sure you list the agencies as we have used them on the website (e.g., USDA is "Agriculture") - - Federal Emergency Management - - Health and Human Services - - Postal Service - - Treasury -home: University <<-- depending on where you came from, choose from either "University": you are on-loan from a university; "Government": you are a full-time GSA employee; or "Non-profit": you are on-loan from a non-profit); other “Agency”: you are a federal detail; -title: Associate Fellow <<-- Enter your title here -status: Current <<-- change to “Alum” when the person is no longer with the team ---- - -[INSERT BIO TEXT HERE] <<-- If you need inspiration, review bio styles and content at oes.gsa.gov/team/ diff --git a/_team/adam-rudy.md b/_team/adam-rudy.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8faf867fe..000000000 --- a/_team/adam-rudy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Adam Rudy -image: /assets/img/team/adam-rudy.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -status: Current -home: Government -title: Program Manager, Talent ---- -Adam comes to OES through the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Emerging Leaders Program (EELP), a two-year rotational development program. Through the EELP, Adam rotated in the Entry Level Training Branch of the Talent Development Division, where he worked on graphic design and organizational research projects. He also rotated with the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), a high-level, cross-government funding vehicle for IT modernization, where he contributed to program management operations. Prior to joining GSA, Adam earned a Master of Arts in Elementary Education from Western Governors University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from St. John’s University. He currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Alexa, their cat Autumn, and their dog Gus. diff --git a/_team/adam-sacarny.md b/_team/adam-sacarny.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2a96df6fb..000000000 --- a/_team/adam-sacarny.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Adam Sacarny -image: /assets/img/team/adam_sacarny.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 -domain: -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - Defense -home: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Adam Sacarny is currently an academic affiliate with the OES team and serves as an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). His research explores the relationship between health care payment policy, provider and patient decision-making, and clinical quality. Much of this work involves using randomized controlled trials to test interventions in the healthcare delivery system. diff --git a/_team/aidan-hudson-lapore.md b/_team/aidan-hudson-lapore.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9f90a8f76..000000000 --- a/_team/aidan-hudson-lapore.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Aidan Hudson-Lapore -image: /assets/img/team/aidan-hudson-lapore.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -home: University -agency: - - Commerce - - Treasury -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Aidan joins OES from The Policy Lab at Brown University. Aidan is an advocate of interdisciplinary approaches, and is focused on how designers can effectively collaborate with researchers, policy-makers, and residents to help implement evidence-based, human-centered services. She has a particular interest in climate change and public health interventions. As a design associate fellow at OES, Aidan will help further embed qualitative approaches and processes, including design research, behavioral mapping, and intervention design. - -In addition to her associate service design role at The Policy Lab, Aidan has worked as a design strategist at See Change Institute and as a behavior change designer at MadPow. Aidan is an alum of the Brown / RISD dual-degree program, where she earned a B.A. in cognitive science and a B.F.A. in industrial design. Outside of work hours, you can find Aidan tending to her many houseplants, practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu, or listening to just one more podcast episode. diff --git a/_team/aislinn-rioux.md b/_team/aislinn-rioux.md deleted file mode 100644 index 84147eac3..000000000 --- a/_team/aislinn-rioux.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Aislinn Heavy Runner-Rioux -image: /assets/img/team/aislinn-rioux.jpg -year: - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Tribal Engagement Fellow -status: Current ---- -Dr. Aislinn Heavy Runner-Rioux (Blackfeet) joins OES as a Tribal Engagement Fellow, focusing on understanding and drawing lessons from the experience of Native Nations with American Rescue Plan programs. Currently, she serves as a Senior Tribal Engagement Evaluator at The University of Montana, as well as the Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor for Kauffman and Associates, Inc. Dr. Rioux leads critical research and evaluation related to issues affecting Indian Country and has worked with an extensive array of Tribal, Federal, State, Non-profit, and Philanthropic organizations. She has extensive experience in leading research and evaluation with a focus on indigenous context. Her comprehensive skill set extends to all facets of research and evaluation from the design of models and frameworks that are culturally based, methodology, engagement, data collection and analysis, and translation into usable information grounded in community values. Dr. Rioux's multifaceted contributions underscore her dedication to culturally grounded research, advocacy, and community engagement. Her endeavors exemplify a profound commitment to uplifting tribal communities and community advocacy. Dr. Rioux's academic achievements include a Master of Interdisciplinary Studies in Applied Statistics/Criminology, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from The University of Montana. diff --git a/_team/alison-cohen.md b/_team/alison-cohen.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9504273f4..000000000 --- a/_team/alison-cohen.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Alison Cohen -image: /assets/img/team/alison-cohen.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - State -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Dr. Alison Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. The majority of her research focuses on determinants of and evaluates interventions to address health, education, and environmental inequities. Her research often involves multidisciplinary research-practice partnerships with community-based non-profit organizations and/or government agencies to design and conduct rigorous research and evaluation that is relevant for policy and practice. She has a PhD in epidemiology and a Masters in Public Health in epidemiology and biostatistics from UC Berkeley. diff --git a/_team/allyson-root.md b/_team/allyson-root.md deleted file mode 100644 index b02705105..000000000 --- a/_team/allyson-root.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Allyson Root -image: /assets/img/team/allyson-barnett.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -domain: -agency: - - Homeland Security - - Health and Human Services - - Postal Service - - Treasury -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Allyson Root holds a PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in behavioral health economics questions, especially those related to how patients and providers make decisions that systematically affect the quality and cost of healthcare. Prior to beginning graduate studies, she worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Assistant on several health economics projects, including the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. She also worked as a Project Associate for Innovations for Poverty Action in Sierra Leone, managing data collection for a study on information and voting behavior focused around the 2012 elections. diff --git a/_team/alyssa-galik.md b/_team/alyssa-galik.md deleted file mode 100644 index 653d2b380..000000000 --- a/_team/alyssa-galik.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Alyssa Galik -image: /assets/img/team/alyssa-galik.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 -status: Alum -home: Government -agency: - - Small Business Administration -title: Alum ---- -Alyssa’s work at OES focuses on finance, operations, and communications. Alyssa joined OES through a rotational program at GSA where she also worked on data governance, supply chain policy, and IT modernization. Prior to GSA, Alyssa served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia where she taught English and implemented a USAID grant that provided vocational training for women. Before that, Alyssa’s research interests focused on service-learning in academia and water resources management in California. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from American University’s School of International Service and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pepperdine University. diff --git a/_team/amanda-girard.md b/_team/amanda-girard.md deleted file mode 100644 index f4ee523b5..000000000 --- a/_team/amanda-girard.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Amanda Girard -image: /assets/img/team/amanda-girard.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - Homeland Security - - Treasury -title: Senior Program Manager, Communications & Visual Design -status: Current ---- - -Amanda joins OES from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT. Amanda is passionate about the role human-centered design can play in facilitating social change and is focused on how designers can effectively collaborate with economists, researchers, and policymakers to help implement evidence-based programs and policies. She has a particular interest in public health interventions. - -Amanda earned a B.F.A. in design and has over a decade of experience as a designer in the public health and economics sectors. At OES, she will help further embed qualitative discovery approaches and processes into intervention design and will contribute to how OES strategically communicates learnings and evidence broadly to the government wide community. diff --git a/_team/amira-boland.md b/_team/amira-boland.md deleted file mode 100644 index 024bb4033..000000000 --- a/_team/amira-boland.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Amira Choueiki Boland -image: /assets/img/team/choueiki_amira.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 -agency: - - Commerce - - Energy - - General Services Administration - - Housing and Urban Development - - Justice - - Labor - - Agriculture -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Amira is currently working with the Office of Management and Budget leading the implementation of the Cross-Agency Priority Goal on Improving Customer Experience with Federal Services and the establishment of the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research (GEAR) Center. - -At OES, she served as the Deputy Director and led building a portfolio of projects in the Justice space. She has worked on a number of collaborations focused on improving government operations, which ranges from improving program integrity, to changing the citizen experience interacting with government forms, processes, and information sharing to streamlining government services and has done the visual design of interventions across the OES portfolio. diff --git a/_team/andrew-feher.md b/_team/andrew-feher.md deleted file mode 100644 index 61b1c38a4..000000000 --- a/_team/andrew-feher.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Andrew Feher -image: /assets/img/team/andrew-feher.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - Veterans Affairs -home: Government -title: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/anjali-narang.md b/_team/anjali-narang.md deleted file mode 100644 index 36e98b947..000000000 --- a/_team/anjali-narang.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Anjali Narang -image: /assets/img/team/anjali-narang.jpg -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Associate Data Scientist -status: Current ---- -Anjali Narang is an applied economics PhD student at Cornell University. She uses experimental and econometric methods to study policy-relevant consumer decision-making. Having focused on the intersection of behavioral and food economics, and then on environmental and energy economics as a PhD student, Anjali has obtained expertise or knowledge of several U.S. domestic policy sectors, including residential energy efficiency (EPA, DOE), flood protection (FEMA, ArmyCorps), and food policy (USDA). Anjali holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in International Relations from Tufts University. diff --git a/_team/anne-herlache.md b/_team/anne-herlache.md deleted file mode 100644 index 105d51cc6..000000000 --- a/_team/anne-herlache.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Anne Herlache -image: /assets/img/team/anne-herlache.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 -agency: - - Housing and Urban Development - - Treasury - - Commerce -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/bhavya-mohan.md b/_team/bhavya-mohan.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3e88c7764..000000000 --- a/_team/bhavya-mohan.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Bhavya Mohan -image: /assets/img/team/Mohan_Bhavya.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - Commerce - - Treasury - - Small Business Administration -title: Senior Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Bhavya Mohan is a Fellow at the Office of Evaluation Sciences. Her projects are primarily impact evaluations that aim to reduce barriers to accessing government programs. Prior to OES, Bhavya was an Assistant Professor in the Marketing department at the University of San Francisco, where she studied the effects of disclosing product costs and executive pay on consumer behavior. She also served as an academic advisor to the United Kingdom’s Behavioral Insights Team, on research examining the effects of disclosing gender pay gaps. Bhavya holds a Doctorate in Business from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelors in Economics and English from Stanford University. diff --git a/_team/bill-schultz.md b/_team/bill-schultz.md deleted file mode 100644 index afa8cce07..000000000 --- a/_team/bill-schultz.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Bill Schultz -image: /assets/img/team/bill-schultz.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Data Scientist -status: Current ---- -Bill Schultz is a Data Scientist on the OES Methods Team. He previously taught social science research methods at the University of Chicago. Bill holds a PhD/MA in Political Science from Florida State University, and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Maryland in both Government and Business Management. His research focuses on community participation in policymaking and the evaluation of environmental programs. He is especially interested in the intersection of environmental, development, and equity issues. Bill conducts research using a flexible mix of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational methods. His work considers the value of both causal inference and more inductive, descriptive approaches to learning from data. diff --git a/_team/blair-read.md b/_team/blair-read.md deleted file mode 100644 index 29a17bd01..000000000 --- a/_team/blair-read.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Blair Read -image: /assets/img/team/blair-read.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Behavioral Scientist - Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- -Blair Read received her Ph.D. in Political Science at MIT, where her research focused on the politics of private service delivery with an application to education policy in the Global South. Through her applied policy research, Blair uses randomized control trials, quasi-experimental design, and descriptive inference with large-scale administrative data to study how to improve citizens' experiences with the government, and poverty alleviation. Other applied research interests include political behavior in the Global South, and survey design and measurement. Prior to the Office of Evaluation Sciences, Blair was a data scientist with Code for America, and a field research associate with MIT GOV/LAB, where she implemented lab-in-the-field experiments in Tanzania and Uganda. diff --git a/_team/brigitte-seim.md b/_team/brigitte-seim.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9a7481b05..000000000 --- a/_team/brigitte-seim.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Brigitte Seim -image: /assets/img/team/brigitte-seim.webp -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - Small Business Administration - - US Agency for International Development -title: Senior Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Brigitte A. Seim is Associate Professor of Global Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Her research agenda examines accountability relationships between citizens and government officials. She is particularly interested in two related but distinct threads of research: one considers how accountability mechanisms can be disrupted or reinforced; and the other considers the methods and data used to study government accountability around the world. To conduct this research, she partners with government institutions, international organizations, and policymakers, as well as other academics. Methodologically, she employs both qualitative and quantitative approaches, with a particular focus on experimental methods. Brigitte is Project Manager of Experiments for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project and a founding Principal Investigator of the Digital Society Project, both of which provide cross-national, high-quality, publicly available data on political institutions and behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. diff --git a/_team/catherine-hensly.md b/_team/catherine-hensly.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7ce3bc523..000000000 --- a/_team/catherine-hensly.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Catherine Hensly -image: /assets/img/team/Catherine_Hensly.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 -domain: -agency: - - US Agency for International Development -home: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Catherine Hensly is a PhD candidate in Economics at American University where she also received her MA degree in Economics. Her research focuses on gender and development, particularly with regards to women's health and political participation. In addition to being an Academic Affiliate at OES, she is also a contributing scholar for the Care Work and the Economy Project. diff --git a/_team/crystal-hall.md b/_team/crystal-hall.md deleted file mode 100644 index d3541ea02..000000000 --- a/_team/crystal-hall.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Crystal Hall -image: /assets/img/team/hall_crystal.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Defense - - Education - - Health and Human Services - - Justice - - Small Business Administration -home: University -title: Academic Affiliate -team: Current ---- - -Crystal Hall is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Her research explores decision making in the context of poverty, using the methods of social and cognitive psychology, along with behavioral economics. This work has had a particular focus on financial decision making, and also the impacts of class stereotypes and the stigma of poverty. Her research has attempted to broaden the theoretical understanding of the behavior of this population, and has also explored new ways of incorporating these insights into policy design and implementation. In her time with OES, she has focused on projects within the areas of Economic Opportunity and Health. She holds a BS in both Decision Science and Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MS and PhD in Psychology from Princeton University. diff --git a/_team/cynthia-wilkes.md b/_team/cynthia-wilkes.md deleted file mode 100644 index 93eaf09d4..000000000 --- a/_team/cynthia-wilkes.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Cynthia Wilkes -image: /assets/img/team/cynthia-wilkes.jpeg -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Community Engagement Fellow -status: Current ---- -Cynthia Wilkes serves as a Community Engagement Fellow at OES where she integrates principles from community-based participatory action research into ongoing evaluations. Drawing from scholarship in organizational behavior and critical race theory, she uses qualitative and mixed methods to explore intersectional experiences by looking at the ways in which systems reproduce inequity. Her goal is to center the voices and lived expertise of communities navigating social and institutional power asymmetries. Cynthia holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California. diff --git a/_team/dan-hopkins.md b/_team/dan-hopkins.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5cb8740d8..000000000 --- a/_team/dan-hopkins.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Daniel J. Hopkins -image: /assets/img/team/hopkins_daniel.webp -year: - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Agriculture - - Health and Human Services -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/daniel-shephard.md b/_team/daniel-shephard.md deleted file mode 100644 index 645fa8547..000000000 --- a/_team/daniel-shephard.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Daniel Shephard -image: /assets/img/team/shephard_daniel.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 -domain: -agency: - - Education - - Labor -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/david-glick.md b/_team/david-glick.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0ddf3e653..000000000 --- a/_team/david-glick.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: David Glick -image: /assets/img/team/david-glick.jpg -year: - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Senior Evaluator -status: Current ---- -David Glick is Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He is also co-Principal Investigator on the annual Menino Survey of Mayors and the founding faculty director of the MetroBridge applied policy research program. He co-authored “Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis” with Cambridge University Press. David teaches undergraduate courses about law and politics, public policy, and local government including a co-taught class about the politics, policy, and social science in HBO’s the Wire that was once named “coolest class to take at BU” by Boston.com. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. diff --git a/_team/david-schwegman.md b/_team/david-schwegman.md deleted file mode 100644 index 184bda940..000000000 --- a/_team/david-schwegman.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: David Schwegman -image: /assets/img/team/david-schwegman.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - Treasury - - Education - - Housing and Urban Development -title: Alum -team: Alum ---- -David joined the team as an Associate Fellow in 2020. He is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research interests include using experimental methods to examine bureaucratic discretion and discrimination in local government and the social welfare system, education policy, and public finance. Prior to joining AU and OES, David completed his PhD at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. diff --git a/_team/david-yokum.md b/_team/david-yokum.md deleted file mode 100644 index aa17abda3..000000000 --- a/_team/david-yokum.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: David Yokum -image: /assets/img/team/yokum_david.webp -year: - - 2013 - - 2014 - - 2015 - - 2016 -domain: -agency: - - Education - - General Services Administration - - Health and Human Services -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -David Yokum, J.D., Ph.D., is the former Director of the Office of Evaluation Sciences. David’s expertise draws on the cognitive foundations of judgment and decision-making and, in particular, how that knowledge and associated methodologies can be translated and applied in government contexts. His innovative teaching in psychology earned accolades, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the UA College of Science. David finished his Ph.D. in Psychology, with dual specialization in Cognition and Neural Systems and Psychology, Policy, and Law, at the University of Arizona (UA), a law degree from the UA James E. Rogers College of Law, where he also served as a writing fellow, instructor, and guest lecturer, and a Master’s in Bioethics and Medical Humanities from the University of South Florida. diff --git a/_team/dennis-kramer.md b/_team/dennis-kramer.md deleted file mode 100644 index ded91aa44..000000000 --- a/_team/dennis-kramer.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Dennis Kramer -image: /assets/img/team/Kramer_II_Dennis.webp -year: - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 -agency: - - Veterans Affairs - - Housing and Urban Development -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Dennis Kramer is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Education Policy Research Center at the University of Florida. Dennis’s research focuses on the use of behavioral insights to understand education-based decision-making, the antecedents and outcomes of federal, state, and local education policies, and economics of education. Dennis has published in leading education policy and higher education peer-reviewed journals and is a Co-PI on a funded study that examines the impact of low-cost communications and fiscal incentives as mechanisms to increase student re-enrollment in community colleges. Additionally, he is leading a field-based experiment that examines the role of structural default choice settings on student loan take-up and disbursement. Dennis holds a B.S. in Psychology from San Diego State University, a M.Ed. in Postsecondary Administration from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. diff --git a/_team/elana-safran.md b/_team/elana-safran.md deleted file mode 100644 index faa49ec79..000000000 --- a/_team/elana-safran.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Elana Safran -image: /assets/img/team/safran_elana.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Defense - - Health and Human Services - - Social Security Administration - - Treasury - - US Agency for International Development - - Veterans Affairs -home: Government -title: Behavioral Scientist - Senior Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- - -Elana Safran coordinates OES’s projects in the American Rescue Plan portfolio, as well as the health and aging portfolio. She has completed projects with the Veterans Administration to inform separating servicemembers about VA health care benefits, with the Social Security Administration to inform low-income adults 65 or older about Supplemental Security Income, and with the Department of Health and Human Services to inform pregnant women about the benefits of maternal immunizations. Prior to OES, she managed randomized evaluations in international development with Innovations for Poverty Action, and served as an Americorps VISTA fellow, supporting older adults in New York with Medicare and Medicaid benefits. In 2023-2024, she is doing a detail to the Office of Management and Budget to lead the Approaching Retirement Life Experience. diff --git a/_team/elizabeth-bell.md b/_team/elizabeth-bell.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7db122c66..000000000 --- a/_team/elizabeth-bell.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Elizabeth Bell -image: /assets/img/team/elizabeth-bell.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - General Services Administration - - Social Security Administration -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Elizabeth Bell is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science at Miami University. Elizabeth’s research combines insights from public management and political science to 1) highlight the political roots of existing inequality in program access and outcomes and 2) craft evidence-based solutions that advance equity in government programs. A specialist in education policy, Elizabeth’s work has been published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, and American Educational Research Journal. Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with fields in public administration, public policy analysis, and advanced research methodology from the University of Oklahoma. diff --git a/_team/elizabeth-linos.md b/_team/elizabeth-linos.md deleted file mode 100644 index d36059ba6..000000000 --- a/_team/elizabeth-linos.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Elizabeth Linos -image: /assets/img/team/elizabeth-linos.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- -Dr. Elizabeth Linos is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and the Founder of The People Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The majority of her research focuses on how to improve government by focusing on its people and the services they deliver. Specifically, her studies consider how we can improve diversity in recruitment and selection, how to reduce burnout at work, and how different work environments affect performance and motivation in government. In her research on behavioral public administration, she also studies how to use low-cost interventions to reduce administrative burdens that low-income households face when interacting with their government. diff --git a/_team/emily-anderson.md b/_team/emily-anderson.md deleted file mode 100644 index 36398c3d4..000000000 --- a/_team/emily-anderson.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Emily Anderson -image: /assets/img/team/Anderson_Emily.webp -year: 2020 -agency: - - General Services Administration -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/erin-byrne.md b/_team/erin-byrne.md deleted file mode 100644 index a65179fa5..000000000 --- a/_team/erin-byrne.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Erin Byrne -image: /assets/img/team/erin-byrne.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 -status: Alum -home: Non-profit -agency: - - General Services Administration - - Treasury -title: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/eugen-dimant.md b/_team/eugen-dimant.md deleted file mode 100644 index 52589e65e..000000000 --- a/_team/eugen-dimant.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Eugen Dimant -image: /assets/img/team/eugen-dimant.webp -year: - - 2022 -home: Government -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Eugen is an Associate Professor of Practice in Behavioral & Decision Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests center on experimental behavioral economics with a particular focus on behavior change, ethical decision-making, crime, and corruption. As a secondary interest, he is also involved in empirical research examining the relationships between corruption, terrorism, and migration. diff --git a/_team/hanna-hoover.md b/_team/hanna-hoover.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6c39260d6..000000000 --- a/_team/hanna-hoover.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Hanna Hoover -image: /assets/img/team/hanna-hoover.jpg -year: - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Hanna G. Hoover is an economist and educator currently serving as a Lecturer III and Research Investigator at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University and dual Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. Her academic career includes postdoctoral research positions at Northeastern University and the University of Michigan. Dr. Hoover's research focuses on social norms, economic behavior, and public policy, with publications in journals such as the Journal of Economic Psychology and Judgment and Decision Making. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on information analytics, big data, and causal inference. She has received several accolades, including the 2024 Early Career Research Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and multiple awards from the University of Michigan and Florida State University. She is an active member of the academic community, serving as a journal referee for several prestigious publications. diff --git a/_team/heather-kappes.md b/_team/heather-kappes.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1119c3943..000000000 --- a/_team/heather-kappes.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Heather Kappes -image: /assets/img/team/heather-kappes.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 -home: University -agency: - - Treasury - - Small Business Administration - - Agriculture -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Heather earned a PhD in Social Psychology at New York University before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2012. She is part of the LSE’s Marketing group in the Department of Management, where she teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses on both consumer behaviour and marketing, and motivation and goals. Heather describes her work as taking a behavioural science approach to marketing, trying to understand what influences people as they pursue their goals (for instance, to run a race or to save money). Her current research looks at how adults and children think about wealth and spending, and how those beliefs predict their spending and financial resilience. She uses a variety of methods including lab, online, and field experiments in the UK, US, and elsewhere. Heather is interested in ensuring the quality of research in psychology and related fields, participated in the Reproducibility Project: Psychology and Many Labs projects, and does periodic outreach on science in UK schools with the STEM Ambassadors program. diff --git a/_team/heidi-wallace.md b/_team/heidi-wallace.md deleted file mode 100644 index 07b559292..000000000 --- a/_team/heidi-wallace.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Heidi Wallace -image: /assets/img/team/heidi-wallace.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- -Heidi Wallace is a Research Associate at The People Lab where she supports a variety of projects aimed at understanding how the public sector can best support its workforce and the people they serve. Prior to The People Lab, she worked in data analysis at a nonprofit organization in San Francisco. Her earlier experience included positions as a social worker in community mental health and government agencies. She holds a Master of Public Policy with an applied data science certificate from UC Berkeley, as well as a Master of Social Work and a B.S. in Psychology from The Ohio State University. diff --git a/_team/helen-ho.md b/_team/helen-ho.md deleted file mode 100644 index 20600f953..000000000 --- a/_team/helen-ho.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Helen Ho -image: /assets/img/team/helen-ho.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Helen Ho is a Research Director at The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on strengthening the public sector workforce, especially by increasing diversity and supports for workers. Her current projects include a theoretical and experimental examination of the effect of worker voice on willingness-to-work and a field experiment of high school programs to increase diversity in STEM. Some of her prior projects have focused on the effects of the criminal justice system, including a field experiment of criminal justice debt relief and a field experiment on the effects of failure to appear for court. Previously, Helen has worked as a research assistant at the Urban Institute, National Bureau of Economic Research, and MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, where she conducted qualitative and quantitative research in a variety of social policy areas. Helen holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. diff --git a/_team/hilary-flint.md b/_team/hilary-flint.md deleted file mode 100644 index 048d296a6..000000000 --- a/_team/hilary-flint.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Hilary Flint -image: /assets/img/team/hilary-flint.jpeg -year: - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Hilary is a senior research scientist at the University of Wyoming. Hilary is trained as a behavioral scientist and studies how people manage and value the environment—particularly the public benefits, like biodiversity conservation and risk mitigation, supplied by private lands. She has worked with federal agencies, local governments, and nonprofits to inform and evaluate environmental programs and policies. Hilary earned a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont, a MS in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, and a BA in Environmental Studies and International Affairs from the University of Colorado, Boulder. diff --git a/_team/hyunsoo-chang.md b/_team/hyunsoo-chang.md deleted file mode 100644 index ce5ef2949..000000000 --- a/_team/hyunsoo-chang.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Hyunsoo Chang -image: /assets/img/team/chang_hyun_soo.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 -agency: - - Agriculture - - Defense - - Health and Human Services - - Office of Personnel Management - - Postal Service - - Social Security Administration - - Transportation - - Treasury -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/irina-feygina.md b/_team/irina-feygina.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4b37f623e..000000000 --- a/_team/irina-feygina.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Irina Feygina -image: /assets/img/team/feygina_irina.webp -year: - - 2014 - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Environmental Protection - - US Global Change Research Program -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/jake-bowers.md b/_team/jake-bowers.md deleted file mode 100644 index f75e72548..000000000 --- a/_team/jake-bowers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jake Bowers -image: /assets/img/team/bowers_jake.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 -agency: - - Agriculture - - Commerce - - General Services Administration - - Health and Human Services - - Homeland Security - - Labor -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Jake Bowers teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an associate professor of political science and statistics. His recent research in applied statistics and political methodology focuses on questions about statistical inference for causal effects in randomized experiments: for example, one paper engages with the problems of non-compliance, binary outcomes, and cluster-randomization, another grapples with the problem of propagation of experimental treatments across networks, and another proposes a way to increase the power of experiments to detect treatment effects using recent advances in machine learning. His recent research on political behavior has two main foci and groups of collaborators: with one group, he has been studying how people perceive their local communities using hand-drawn maps embedded in online surveys, and with another group collaborators, with another group he has launched a field experiment to assess the effects of a new Hausa-speaking television channel in Northern Nigeria on social norms about violence, inter-group tolerance, and the roles of women and youth in society. As an OES Fellow, he works on the Research Support Squad to help enhance the transparency and integrity of the research design and data analysis process of the team. - diff --git a/_team/jasper-cooper.md b/_team/jasper-cooper.md deleted file mode 100644 index ee93ea56d..000000000 --- a/_team/jasper-cooper.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jasper Cooper -image: /assets/img/team/cooper_jasper.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Commerce - - Justice - - Small Business Administration - - Treasury -home: University -title: Behavioral Scientist - Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- - -Jasper Cooper serves as a Portfolio Lead at OES, where he works on projects focused on equitable economic recovery and reducing barriers to accessing government programs. He is particularly interested in how to best match research questions with research designs, including randomized evaluations, machine learning for descriptive analysis, and qualitative methods. He has worked on projects in partnership with the Census Bureau, the Small Business Administration, and the Department of the Treasury. He joined OES while completing a Post-Doctoral at Princeton University’s Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy and continued working with OES while he was an Assistant Professor in Political Science at UCSD. Jasper earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, and a masters in Urban and Regional Policy from Sciences Po, Paris. diff --git a/_team/jennifer-daniels.md b/_team/jennifer-daniels.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5fb1dfebc..000000000 --- a/_team/jennifer-daniels.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jennifer Daniels -image: /assets/img/team/jennifer-daniels.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -home: University -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Jennifer Daniels is a Ph.D. candidate in the Urban Affairs and Public Policy Program in the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware (UD). Her research interests include evaluating institutionalized racism and the actualization of social equity in policy and program design and implementation. Currently, Jennifer is involved with research projects investigating how racial attitudes and the discretionary decision-making of policy actors meditate objective inequality and program access for low-income populations in social welfare programs. Jennifer’s past experiences include overseeing diversity and inclusion education and training for UD staff, faculty, and students in the Office of Equity and Inclusion. Jennifer holds a master’s in social work (MSW) and a BA in Psychology. diff --git a/_team/jessica-kallen.md b/_team/jessica-kallen.md deleted file mode 100644 index 48bc43e79..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-kallen.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Kallen -image: /assets/img/team/jessica-kallen.webp -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -status: Current -home: Government -title: Program Manager, Finance and Legal ---- -Jessica joins OES from the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Emerging Leaders Program (EELP). During her two years with GSA she has rotated with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer- FAS Budget Division (BBF), Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) as well as three rotations in Office of Shared Solutions and Performance Improvement (OSSPI) on the Operations Team, the White House Leadership Development Program, and the Executive Councils Team. Jessica has worked on interagency agreements collecting and disbursing project funds, various budget and finance matters, training and development programs, and process improvement initiatives. Prior to joining federal service, Jessica worked in banking as a financial center manager. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Management specializing in Lean and Quality at Oakland University. diff --git a/_team/jessica-lasky-fink.md b/_team/jessica-lasky-fink.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8bf1093fc..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-lasky-fink.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Lasky-Fink -image: /assets/img/team/lasky-fink.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: -home: University -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- - -Jessica Lasky-Fink is the Research Director at The People Lab, based at the Harvard Kennedy School. Much of her research focuses on using insights from behavioral science to improve the delivery of government services and programs, with a particular focus on the social safety net. Jessica holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a MA in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins SAIS. diff --git a/_team/jessica-leight.md b/_team/jessica-leight.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7cebbe302..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-leight.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Leight -image: /assets/img/team/jessica_leight.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -agency: - - Office of Personnel Management - - Social Security Administration - - US Agency for International Development - - Veterans Affairs -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Jessica Leight is a research fellow in the Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Previously, she served as an assistant professor of economics at American University from 2017 to 2019 and Williams College from 2013 to 2017. She received a Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 2013, a M.Phil. in Economics at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 2008, and a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University in 2006. Her research agenda focuses on questions of human capital accumulation, particularly for women and girls, as well as agricultural institutions, structural transformation and political accountability. Current projects include both field randomized controlled trials and survey analysis and have been funded by agencies including the Macarthur Foundation, USAID, the Department of Labor, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She has also worked as a consultant with 3ie. In addition, her work is published or forthcoming in a number of leading journals in development economics. diff --git a/_team/jessica-lohmann.md b/_team/jessica-lohmann.md deleted file mode 100644 index e3f8b3902..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-lohmann.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Lohmann -image: /assets/img/team/jessica_lohmann.webp -year: - - 2019 -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/jessica-norton.md b/_team/jessica-norton.md deleted file mode 100644 index 991d60e19..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-norton.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Norton -image: /assets/img/team/jessica-norton.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Jessica Norton is a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University. Jessica’s training focuses on program development, evaluation, and advanced research methods. Her research focuses on evidence-based prevention and intervention programs and longitudinal outcomes for youth and families. Jessica has guided research and evaluation efforts within private and public sectors on projects related to substance use, peer bullying, school safety, youth sexual risk and pregnancy, and juvenile offending and recidivism. Jessica recently completed a research assistantship with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). There, she supported intramural and extramural research and evaluation projects, including the Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 2018 and the NIJ/ICITAP Project Design and Monitoring Model (PDMM). diff --git a/_team/jessica-skretch.md b/_team/jessica-skretch.md deleted file mode 100644 index 39ad6c8e9..000000000 --- a/_team/jessica-skretch.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Jessica Skretch -image: /assets/img/team/jessica-skretch.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 -home: Government -agency: - - Small Business Administration - - Treasury -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Jessica joins OES from the Federal Reserve Board. As a senior UX designer, she helps to research and design solutions that support monetary policy work. This often involves creating digital tools that support production and collaboration for unique policy-making processes. - -During her 12 years in the public sector, Jess pursued several usability certifications as well as professional experience with the practice and facilitation of human-centered research and design methods. While working in consumer education at the Federal Trade Commission, Jess led strategy, design, and usability for a suite of identity theft resources including IdentityTheft.gov. - -As the inaugural design fellow, she will be helping to embed more qualitative approaches into how we develop solutions. Jess is a skilled visual designer that loves learning about people, discovering something unexpected, and applying design expertise to solve problems. diff --git a/_team/john-marvel.md b/_team/john-marvel.md deleted file mode 100644 index f0085fedb..000000000 --- a/_team/john-marvel.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: John Marvel -image: /assets/img/team/marvel_john.webp -year: - - 2017 - - 2018 -agency: -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/john-ternovski.md b/_team/john-ternovski.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5989f1e1f..000000000 --- a/_team/john-ternovski.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: John Ternovski -image: /assets/img/team/john-ternovski.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -John Ternovski is currently a PhD candidate at Yale in the Political Science department. He is a multi-disciplinary empiricist with a focus on using machine learning, causal inference, social media analytics, and computational social science to speak to questions within behavioral science, public policy, and network science. He is the Co-Founder and Principal of Mimir Analytics and has previously been employed as a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (Student Social Support R&D Lab), a lab specializing in large-scale field experiments in the field of education. Prior to this position, John served as the Director of Analytics at the Analyst Institute, a company that designed, implemented, and analyzed large-scale field experiments for a variety of major nonprofits and political campaigns. diff --git a/_team/juan-manuel-contreras.md b/_team/juan-manuel-contreras.md deleted file mode 100644 index 40d675322..000000000 --- a/_team/juan-manuel-contreras.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Juan Manuel Contreras -image: /assets/img/team/contreras_juanmichael.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 -domain: -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - US Agency for International Development -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/julia-brown.md b/_team/julia-brown.md deleted file mode 100644 index 31c519122..000000000 --- a/_team/julia-brown.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Julia Brown -image: /assets/img/team/julia_brown.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: - - Small Business Administration - - Treasury -title: Senior Data Scientist -status: Current ---- - -Julia Brown is a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland - College Park, and an Associate Fellow at the Office of Evaluation Sciences. Her research focuses on public policy and behavioral economics, particularly as they relate to consumer finance and financial protection. Prior to her doctoral work, she managed the US Household Finance Initiative at Innovations for Poverty Action, where she led a portfolio of research projects looking at incorporating behavioral design into financial products and services to help low-income Americans save more and pay down debt more quickly. She also conducted research related to Medicaid quality control for the State of Ohio, on behalf of the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center, and was part of a research team focused on mortgage policy at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, both at The Ohio State University. She holds a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Women’s and Gender Studies from Williams College. diff --git a/_team/julian-jamison.md b/_team/julian-jamison.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4bee3436a..000000000 --- a/_team/julian-jamison.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Julian Jamison -image: /assets/img/team/Julian_Jamison.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -domain: -agency: - - US Agency for International Development -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Julian is an Academic Affiliate with the OES team and is a Professor of Economics and the Director of Research (Economics) at the University of Exeter. Julian previously worked in the public sector within the US government and the World Bank, as well as with multiple academic institutions, including Northwestern University, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, Caltech, HEC Paris, Yale University, and Harvard University. Julian’s research focuses on the interaction between individual preferences, decisions, and well-being on the one hand, and institutional policies on the other, with a special interest in explicit welfare tradeoffs. He uses a wide range of methodological approaches, ranging from mathematical theory to lab & field experiments to formal rhetoric to surveys to large administrative data. Much of his work has taken place in more than a dozen developing countries (especially in sub-Saharan Africa), with a particular sectoral focus on health and financial behavior, but he is easily tempted in new directions. Julian has traveled to over 85 countries. diff --git a/_team/julie-nygard.md b/_team/julie-nygard.md deleted file mode 100644 index ba0d3f548..000000000 --- a/_team/julie-nygard.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Julie Nygard -image: /assets/img/team/julie-nygard.webp -year: 2020 -agency: - - Interior -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/kaitlyn-moberly.md b/_team/kaitlyn-moberly.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8b2ea6357..000000000 --- a/_team/kaitlyn-moberly.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kaitlyn Moberly -image: /assets/img/team/kaitlyn-moberly.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 -agency: - - Health and Human Services -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/kara-beck.md b/_team/kara-beck.md deleted file mode 100644 index eac4e6d76..000000000 --- a/_team/kara-beck.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kara Beck -image: /assets/img/team/kara_beck.jfif -year: - - 2019 -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/kate-silz-carson.md b/_team/kate-silz-carson.md deleted file mode 100644 index c026d13b6..000000000 --- a/_team/kate-silz-carson.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kate Silz-Carson -image: /assets/img/team/Katherine-Silz-Carson.webp -year: - - 2022 -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Kate Silz Carson is a Professor of Economics at the United States Air Force Academy. Most of her research work combines tools from public and experimental economics to examine questions relevant to environmental economics and policy. She is particularly interested in improving methods to estimate the benefits from environmental goods and services by testing these methods in the experimental laboratory before taking them to the field, in order to better understand what methods are likely to generate biased results and how these biases might be mitigated. In addition, she has conducted experimental research on the role of rank and group membership in contributing to toleration of unethical behavior in organizations, and designed and implemented multi-site randomized controlled trials to test pedagogical innovations in undergraduate teaching. In addition to serving as a faculty member at the Air Force Academy since 1997, she served as a Resident Lab Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University during the 2013-2014 academic year, where she studied the role of incentive compatibility in institutional corruption. Dr. Silz Carson received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. diff --git a/_team/kate-yang.md b/_team/kate-yang.md deleted file mode 100644 index cb4f50552..000000000 --- a/_team/kate-yang.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Lang (Kate) Yang -image: /assets/img/team/kate-yang.webp -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Senior Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Lang (Kate) Yang is an associate professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. Her research interest is in state and local government finances, especially the questions of fiscal federalism. Kate studies three questions through both causal and descriptive inference: causes of and remedies for local government fiscal stress, impediments to government financial transparency, and the allocation of financial resources for K-12 education. diff --git a/_team/kelly-bidwell.md b/_team/kelly-bidwell.md deleted file mode 100644 index b08ab67cc..000000000 --- a/_team/kelly-bidwell.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kelly Bidwell -image: /assets/img/team/bidwell_kelly.webp -year: - - 2013 - - 2014 - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - US Agency for International Development - - Veterans Affairs - - General Services Administration - - Small Business Administration -home: Government -title: Director -status: Current ---- - -Kelly joined the team as a Fellow in 2013, and took on the role as OES Director in 2016. Kelly provides the direction and oversight of the team, manages the staff and budget, coordinates with GSA leadership, and ensures scientific protocols and standards are met across the OES portfolio. Kelly leads strategic conversations with government-wide leadership to identify evidence gaps and evidence generation opportunities, feasible evaluation plans which can be implemented in agency operational and budget constraints, government-wide resource and training needs, and aims to ensure OES is responsive to growing and changing agency demands. Kelly has also built a portfolio of global health projects with USAID, led early collaborations with the VA, and supports and oversees all of OES’ ongoing evaluations. Kelly holds a MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, where she focused on economic development, education and evaluation methods. In her previous roles at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Jameel Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Kelly served in technical and management positions launching, supervising and running numerous randomized control trials across sectors, leading training and dissemination efforts internationally, launching and growing programs and country offices, and supporting the use of impact evaluations and rigorous evidence for informed and effective policy making with numerous governments. Kelly lived and worked abroad, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, for much of her professional career prior to joining GSA. diff --git a/_team/kenneth-shores.md b/_team/kenneth-shores.md deleted file mode 100644 index f51a3aa4d..000000000 --- a/_team/kenneth-shores.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kenneth Shores -image: /assets/img/team/kenneth-shores.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- -Dr. Kenneth A. Shores is an associate professor specializing in education policy in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, and he is affiliated with the UD Center for Research in Education and Social Policy. His research is focused on educational inequality and encompasses both descriptive and causal inference. To this end, his work addresses racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequality in test scores, school disciplinary policy, classification systems, and school resources. In addition, he has examined how improvements to school finance systems can reduce educational inequality and how vulnerabilities in school finance systems can contribute to it. Dr. Shores was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow, a Philanthropy and Civic Society Fellow, a Stanford Graduate Fellow, and an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Predoctoral Fellow. In 2018, he was the co-recipient of the National Council on Measurement in Education’s Annual Award for exceptional achievement in educational measurement. He received his Ph.D. in education policy analysis from Stanford University. Prior to graduate school, he was a middle school teacher on the Navajo Nation. diff --git a/_team/kevin-hong.md b/_team/kevin-hong.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4236d4794..000000000 --- a/_team/kevin-hong.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kevin Hong -image: /assets/img/team/Kevin_Hong.webp -year: - - 2019 -agency: - - Social Security Administration - - Homeland Security -home: Labor -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/kris-stella-trump.md b/_team/kris-stella-trump.md deleted file mode 100644 index 18bebbc18..000000000 --- a/_team/kris-stella-trump.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Kris-Stella Trump -image: /assets/img/team/krisstella_trump.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 -agency: - - Health and Human Services -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/leah-lozier.md b/_team/leah-lozier.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3f04a893f..000000000 --- a/_team/leah-lozier.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Leah Lozier -image: /assets/img/team/leah_lozier.webp -year: - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Housing and Urban Development -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/lisa-ortiz.md b/_team/lisa-ortiz.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1e5d52610..000000000 --- a/_team/lisa-ortiz.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Lisa Ortiz -image: /assets/img/team/lisa-ortiz.webp -year: - - 2022 -home: Government -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Prior to joining GSA, Lisa Ortiz served as Division Chief and Senior Economist at the US Agency for International Development where she oversaw, led, and conducted economic research and analysis across a broad range of topics. Most recently she served as Senior Advisor on Sudan’s economic transition. Her latest research focuses on the economic drivers of state fragility. -Prior to joining the federal government as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College. She holds a Doctoral degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from Fordham University. diff --git a/_team/lizzie-martin.md b/_team/lizzie-martin.md deleted file mode 100644 index 808d0cd4c..000000000 --- a/_team/lizzie-martin.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Lizzie Martin -image: /assets/img/team/lizzie-martin.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Office of Management and Budget - - Health and Human Services - - Veterans Affairs -home: Government -title: Senior Program Manager -status: Current ---- - -Lizzie serves as a Program Manager at OES, where she contributes to the American Rescue Plan (ARP) portfolio of evaluations and manages a national research contract focused on understanding to what extent and how ARP program implementation achieved intended outcomes, particularly with respect to advancing equity. She joined OES through the Presidential Management Fellowship and has previously served at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the the U.S. Department of State. As a joint PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Lizzie studies public opinion and its role in policymaking. She has a master’s degree in statistics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a Master in Public Affairs with a certificate in global health and health policy from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and an undergraduate degree in public policy and creative writing from Princeton University. diff --git a/_team/lori-foster.md b/_team/lori-foster.md deleted file mode 100644 index a9fec952a..000000000 --- a/_team/lori-foster.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Lori Foster -image: /assets/img/team/foster_lori.webp -year: - - 2014 - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Defense - - Labor -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/mary-clair-turner.md b/_team/mary-clair-turner.md deleted file mode 100644 index 34427b23e..000000000 --- a/_team/mary-clair-turner.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mary Clair Turner -image: /assets/img/team/maryclair_turner.webp -year: - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - General Services Administration - - Housing and Urban Development - - Treasury - - Agriculture - - Education -home: Government -title: Behavioral Scientist - Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- - -Mary Clair Turner serves as a Portfolio Lead at OES where she works on projects focused on improving educational outcomes, access to social benefits, and payment integrity. Mary Clair was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Inclusive Economy Lab where she led an evaluation of a sports-based positive youth development program in Chicago Public Schools and a Technical Research Assistant at MDRC where she helped conduct large-scale randomized control trials of interventions in community colleges. Her research uses econometric and mixed methods techniques to examine how interventions that target the development of psychological skills or access to social resources impact decision making, particularly during educational transitions such as the transition from high school to college. She draws on insights from human development to focus on sensitive periods of development when interventions may induce the largest effects. She holds a BA in Math from Washington & Lee University and a PhD in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. diff --git a/_team/mary-steffel.md b/_team/mary-steffel.md deleted file mode 100644 index 93505f1e5..000000000 --- a/_team/mary-steffel.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mary Steffel -image: /assets/img/team/mary_steffel.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -agency: - - Defense - - Health and Human Services - - Postal Service - - Veterans Affairs -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Mary Steffel is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Her research is dedicated to the study of consumer judgment and decision-making. Her research examines when people call upon others to help them make decisions, what are the barriers to accurately gauging others’ preferences and effectively choosing on their behalf, and how to help people make better decisions for themselves and others. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Medical Decision Making, and Health Psychology, and has been recognized as a recipient of a Marketing Science Institute Research Grant, Transformative Consumer Research Grant, Georgetown Consumer Market Insights Challenge Award, and Society for Consumer Psychology Dissertation Proposal Award. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University in 2009 and her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Florida in 2012. diff --git a/_team/mattie-toma.md b/_team/mattie-toma.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7a3427a07..000000000 --- a/_team/mattie-toma.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mattie Toma -image: /assets/img/team/mattie-toma.webp -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: - - Small Business Administration - - Health and Human Services -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Mattie is joining the OES team as an Associate Fellow. She is currently a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard, and her research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics with applications to health policy. Her projects in graduate school include identifying the economic impacts of improved sleep for low-income individuals in India, as well as exploring the role of beliefs in augmenting the efficacy of policy or research interventions. Before starting her PhD, Mattie worked on the analysis of experiments and observational datasets relating to education, happiness, and labor economics as a Research Professional at the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute. She also served as an intern in the White House Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council. She holds a BA with honors in economics from the University of Chicago. diff --git a/_team/maya-duru.md b/_team/maya-duru.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3f862cf1a..000000000 --- a/_team/maya-duru.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Maya Duru -image: /assets/img/team/maya-duru.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: -home: Government -title: Behavioral Scientist - Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- - -Maya Duru is a social science researcher with an interest in poverty alleviation programs. She has designed interventions to evaluate programs for nonprofits and governments that are focused on improving food security, labor, and governance outcomes. In her research, Maya uses a variety of methods including lab, online, and field experiments as well as focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Maya aims to support junior researchers by developing education and research resources. She also actively works to promote research transparency. Prior to her fellowship at OES, Maya was the Associate Director of Education at J-PAL where she directed the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) as well as the MIT Economics Department's associated Master’s program. Maya holds a PhD in political science from UC San Diego and a MSc in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis. diff --git a/_team/maya-sadagopal.md b/_team/maya-sadagopal.md deleted file mode 100644 index 47dea8357..000000000 --- a/_team/maya-sadagopal.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Maya Sadagopal -image: /assets/img/team/maya-sadagopal.jpg -year: - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Maya Sadagopal serves as a Utilization Fellow at OES, focusing on increasing the use of evaluation findings to improve federal programs, policies, and operations. She joins OES on detail from the Department of Treasury’s Office of Strategy, Planning, and Performance Improvement (OSPPI), where she has helped stand up Treasury’s evidence and evaluation function and works to strengthen the agency’s ability to build and use evidence in decision-making. Prior to Treasury, she worked in political campaign operations and public accounting and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia leading financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and gender equity initiatives. Maya holds a BS in Commerce and a BA in Spanish from the University of Virginia. diff --git a/_team/michael-didomenico.md b/_team/michael-didomenico.md deleted file mode 100644 index dbab4e4b2..000000000 --- a/_team/michael-didomenico.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Michael DiDomenico -image: /assets/img/team/didomenico_michael.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: - - Education - - Housing and Urban Development - - Labor -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Michael DiDomenico’s areas of interest include education, workforce development, and housing policy. His project work at OES includes providing student borrowers with information to make informed decisions about loan repayment and encouraging youth in public housing to complete the FAFSA. Prior to OES, Michael conducted several large-scale national evaluations with the Social and Economic Policy Division at Abt Associates. Michael has a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and currently is a Ph.D. student at the George Washington University. In addition to formal project work, he spends a significant amount of time experimenting to find the perfect shot of espresso. diff --git a/_team/michael-hand.md b/_team/michael-hand.md deleted file mode 100644 index a278c3841..000000000 --- a/_team/michael-hand.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Michael Hand -image: /assets/img/team/hand_michael.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Agriculture - - Homeland Security - - General Services Administration - - Health and Human Services -home: Government -title: Behavioral Scientist - Portfolio Lead -status: Current ---- - -Michael Hand serves as an OES Portfolio Lead. His work with the team focuses on supporting agencies as they implement the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, as well as projects to improve natural resource management and improve the cost effectiveness of Government operations. Prior to joining OES Michael was a Research Economist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. His research interests include the benefits people derive from forests, the economics of wildfire suppression, and risk perception and preferences of public managers. diff --git a/_team/michelangelo-landgrave.md b/_team/michelangelo-landgrave.md deleted file mode 100644 index 86d6efc79..000000000 --- a/_team/michelangelo-landgrave.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Michelangelo Landgrave -image: /assets/img/team/michelangelo-landgrave.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Michelangelo Landgrave is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside and an MA in Economics from California State University, Long Beach. He was previously a predoctoral fellow with the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). His experimental research is primarily focused on helping government agencies provide equitable service to historically underserved populations. His work has appeared in journals such as Political Analysis, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration among others. diff --git a/_team/miles-williams.md b/_team/miles-williams.md deleted file mode 100644 index 36454b57d..000000000 --- a/_team/miles-williams.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Miles Williams -image: /assets/img/team/miles-williams.jpeg -year: - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Miles Williams is a Methods Fellow with OES, and he is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Data Political Research at Denison University in Granville, OH. Miles is interested in causal inference, statistical methods, and machine learning. His research centers on the politics of development and foreign aid. diff --git a/_team/mindy-hernandez.md b/_team/mindy-hernandez.md deleted file mode 100644 index 882f8a695..000000000 --- a/_team/mindy-hernandez.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mindy Hernandez -image: /assets/img/team/mindy_hernandez.webp -year: - - 2018 -agency: - - US Agency for International Development -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/mo-earley.md b/_team/mo-earley.md deleted file mode 100644 index 21cd2f9a5..000000000 --- a/_team/mo-earley.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mo Earley -image: /assets/img/team/earley_mo.webp -year: - - 2017 -agency: - - Commerce -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/mona-siddiqui.md b/_team/mona-siddiqui.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0efebc341..000000000 --- a/_team/mona-siddiqui.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Mona Siddiqui -image: /assets/img/team/siddiqui_mona.webp -year: - - 2014 - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Defense - - Health and Human Services - - Veterans Affairs -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/nathaniel-higgins.md b/_team/nathaniel-higgins.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9f7738512..000000000 --- a/_team/nathaniel-higgins.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Nathaniel Higgins -image: /assets/img/team/higgins_nathaniel.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 -agency: - - Agriculture - - Energy - - Environmental Protection - - Housing and Urban Development - - Treasury -home: Government -title: - - Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/nicholas-wilson.md b/_team/nicholas-wilson.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4f5046228..000000000 --- a/_team/nicholas-wilson.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Nicholas Wilson -image: /assets/img/team/nicholas_wilson.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 -domain: -agency: - - Agriculture - - Defense - - General Services Administration - - Social Security Administration - - US Agency for International Development - - Veterans Affairs -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/nuole-chen.md b/_team/nuole-chen.md deleted file mode 100644 index b6c01e5ef..000000000 --- a/_team/nuole-chen.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Nuole (Lula) Chen -image: /assets/img/team/Noule_Chen.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 -domain: -agency: - - General Services Administration - - Agriculture - - Health and Human Services -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Lula Chen is interested in experimental methods, computational methods, group decision-making, and International Relations. She is on the Methods Team at OES where she works on reanalysis, evaluation design, and reproducibility. Lula is currently a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her projects focus on group decision-making in foreign policy and experimental methods, including a randomized field experiment about taxes and collective action in Malawi. At Illinois, Lula has also served as the Interim Associate Director for the Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security. Prior to starting her PhD, Lula was a program manager at Sister Cities International, where she worked on U.S.-Chinese-African trilateral municipal cooperation projects. She holds an MA in Security Studies and a BSFS in Regional and Comparative Studies from Georgetown University. diff --git a/_team/oded-gurantz.md b/_team/oded-gurantz.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8d8375651..000000000 --- a/_team/oded-gurantz.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Oded Gurantz -image: /assets/img/team/oded-gurantz.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- -Oded Gurantz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on gaps in college enrollment and completion between students from historically underserved groups and their more privileged peers. With a background in economics and education policy, he uses quantitative research methods, primarily quasi-experimental and experimental designs, to examine programs and policies that are both effective and efficient in ameliorating educational disparities. diff --git a/_team/oliver-mcclellan.md b/_team/oliver-mcclellan.md deleted file mode 100644 index ed832e2ed..000000000 --- a/_team/oliver-mcclellan.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Oliver McClellan -image: /assets/img/team/oliver-mcclellan.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -title: Methods Lead -status: Current ---- -Oliver A. McClellan serves as the OES Methods Lead, contributing to research design and analysis across portfolios. Oliver joined OES while working as an Early Career Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in randomized trial design and causal inference methodology. His most recent research prior to joining OES examines the role political parties play in influencing the opinions and actions of the United States electorate. diff --git a/_team/paul-lagunes.md b/_team/paul-lagunes.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0035a7593..000000000 --- a/_team/paul-lagunes.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Paul Lagunes -image: /assets/img/team/paul-lagunes.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: -home: University -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Paul Lagunes is currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy and was previously an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research examines the issue of corruption, especially as it affects governments in the Americas. Primarily through the execution of field experiments, he offers insights on corruption’s regressive impact on society; the factors maintaining a corrupt status quo; the conditions under which anti corruption monitoring is most effective; and the means to motivate those at the frontline of the fight against corruption. Paul has served as a visiting scholar at the Inter-American Development Bank (2016-2017) and at Rice University’s Baker Institute (2018-2019). He serves as a voting member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) and the Coalition for Integrity (C4I). He has also served as an advisor on the Brookings Institute’s Study on Transparency and Integrity in the Natural Resource Sector. - diff --git a/_team/pompa-debroy.md b/_team/pompa-debroy.md deleted file mode 100644 index bb67f0f07..000000000 --- a/_team/pompa-debroy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Pompa Debroy -image: /assets/img/team/pompa-debroy.webp -year: - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - Veterans Affairs -home: Government -title: Strategy and Operations Lead -status: Current ---- - -Pompa Debroy joined the OES team to lead a suite of projects related to public health and currently leads strategy and operations for OES. Pompa is passionate about using research and design to apply innovative solutions to solve complex health challenges. Pompa has experience working across sectors in research, consulting and management roles. Prior to joining OES, Pompa worked in global health with organizations supporting governments to scale-up evidence-based and low-cost interventions to help the world’s most vulnerable populations. She holds a Masters in Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelors in Arts in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. diff --git a/_team/ratnalekha-viswanadham.md b/_team/ratnalekha-viswanadham.md deleted file mode 100644 index 04424ecae..000000000 --- a/_team/ratnalekha-viswanadham.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Ratnalekha Viswanadham -image: /assets/img/team/lekha-viswanadham.jpg -year: - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Associate Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Ratnalekha (Lekha) Viswanadham is a postdoctoral fellow in pediatrics and population health at NYU Langone Medical Center/Grossman School of Medicine. She researches how experimental and behavioral economics within digital technologies and machine learning improve the decision-making of healthcare providers. Lekha holds PhDs in marketing and neuroscience from INSEAD and Sorbonne Université, respectively, and her BS from California Institute of Technology in applied mathematics and business economics. She loves music, tennis, comedy, and walking around New York City. diff --git a/_team/rebecca-johnson.md b/_team/rebecca-johnson.md deleted file mode 100644 index 37e7c8708..000000000 --- a/_team/rebecca-johnson.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Rebecca Johnson -image: /assets/img/team/rebecca_johnson.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -agency: - - Housing and Urban Development - - Education - - Veterans Affairs - - Small Business Administration - - Commerce -home: University -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- - -Rebecca Johnson is an Academic Affiliate at OES working on projects at the intersection of housing, education, and survey methodology. She is an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College. Her academic research studies how social service bureaucracies ration scarce resources, focusing on school districts. Other research studies and aids government agencies in using large-scale data and predictive modeling for more equitable prioritization, including as a 2018 Summer Fellow with Data Science for Social Good and a visiting Data Scientist at The Lab at DC. diff --git a/_team/rebecca-kruse.md b/_team/rebecca-kruse.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8a5c1b309..000000000 --- a/_team/rebecca-kruse.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Rebecca Kruse -image: /assets/img/team/rebecca-kruse.webp -year: 2020 -agency: - - Homeland Security -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Rebecca joined the team as an Evidence Fellow in the winter of 2020. The Evidence Fellows directly support pilot agencies in their Evidence Act implementation efforts. This work will inform and help establish government-wide resources for coordinating across agency functions and processes to meet the requirements of the Evidence Act. Rebecca has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with professional training and experience in education research, program and policy evaluation, business analytics, and methodologies for process, team, and organizational improvement. She joins OES from the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she integrates principles and practices of evaluation, human-centered design, change management, strategic facilitation, and co-creation approaches to support evidence building and use. - -Before her Federal service, Rebecca partnered with a diverse range of public K-12 education, higher education, non-profit, and state and federal government organizations with funding from NSF, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of the Army. Her roles included directing research and evaluation to support the creation, implementation, and refinement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development programs and initiatives. diff --git a/_team/rebecca-refoy.md b/_team/rebecca-refoy.md deleted file mode 100644 index d30109da5..000000000 --- a/_team/rebecca-refoy.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Rebecca Refoy -image: /assets/img/team/rrs.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/rekha-balu.md b/_team/rekha-balu.md deleted file mode 100644 index db234a26c..000000000 --- a/_team/rekha-balu.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Rekha Balu -image: /assets/img/team/rekha_balu.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: - - Social Security Administration - - Housing and Urban Development - - Veterans Affairs -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Rekha Balu directs the Center for Applied Behavioral Science at MDRC, a nonprofit social policy research firm that conducts large-scale causal evaluations. As a Senior Research Associate, she has led numerous randomized field trials of behaviorally informed interventions in education, parenting, and child welfare. Her research focuses on supporting low-income youth and families to enroll and participate in school and social programs. She has designed interventions that help families develop ongoing routines and help governments or social programs simplify their programs. She also has designed and tested multiple technology-driven interventions including mobile phone applications, web-based decision-making tools, and text-message and email-based information campaigns. diff --git a/_team/russ-burnett.md b/_team/russ-burnett.md deleted file mode 100644 index fb0d7d929..000000000 --- a/_team/russ-burnett.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Russ Burnett -image: /assets/img/team/russ_burnett.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -status: Alum -agency: - - Defense - - Transportation - - Veterans Affairs -home: Government -title: - - Alum ---- - -Russ Burnett divided his time between project work and serving as OES’s Methods Team Lead, supporting the team’s commitment to reliable, reproducible, and transparent methods. He is a cognitive psychologist with a research background in judgment and decision making, causal reasoning, and culture and cognition. Prior to joining OES, he worked as a social science methodologist at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he advised on research design and methods and conducted analysis for projects on a variety of federal programs and policies. Russ has also worked as a survey methodologist for government and private-sector clients. He has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University. diff --git a/_team/ryan-moore.md b/_team/ryan-moore.md deleted file mode 100644 index eab403deb..000000000 --- a/_team/ryan-moore.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Ryan Moore -image: /assets/img/team/ryan_moore.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -title: Academic Affiliate -status: Current ---- - -Ryan Moore is a Methods Academic Affiliate with OES, and concurrently serves as a professor in the Department of Government at American University in Washington, DC, a Senior Social Scientist with The Lab @ DC, and an affiliate of the research network on Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Ryan’s research interests center around statistical political methodology, with applications in American social policy. Methodologically, he develops and implements methods for political experiments, ecological data, missing data, causal inference, and geolocated data. Ryan is interested in federalism, direct democracy, and the politics of health care and the social safety net. diff --git a/_team/saad-omer.md b/_team/saad-omer.md deleted file mode 100644 index 78547c678..000000000 --- a/_team/saad-omer.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Saad Omer -image: /assets/img/team/saad_omer.webp -year: - - 2016 - - 2017 - - 2018 - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 -domain: -agency: - - Health and Human Services - - Veterans Affairs -home: -title: Academic Affiliate ---- - -Saad B. Omer is the Director at the Yale Institute for Global Health and the Associate Dean of Global Health Research at the Yale School of Medicine. He has conducted studies in the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and South Africa. Dr Omer’s research portfolio includes behavioral interventions to increase immunization coverage and demand. Moreover, he has conducted several studies and clinical trials to estimate the efficacy of maternal and/or infant influenza, pertussis, polio, measles and pneumococcal vaccines and trials to evaluate drug regimens to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Dr Omer’s work has been cited in global and country-specific policy recommendations and has informed clinical practice and health legislation in several countries. He has mentored over 100 junior faculty, clinical and research post-doctoral fellows, and PhD and other graduate students. - -Dr. Omer has published widely in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Pediatrics, American Journal of Public Health, and Science. Moreover, he has written op-eds for publications such as the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post. - -Dr Omer serves on the World Health Organization Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. He has also served on several advisory panels including the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the Public Health Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and WHO Expert Advisory Group for Healthcare Worker Vaccination. diff --git a/_team/sam-quinney.md b/_team/sam-quinney.md deleted file mode 100644 index 770923930..000000000 --- a/_team/sam-quinney.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Sam Quinney -image: /assets/img/team/sam_quinney.webp -year: - - 2014 - - 2015 -domain: -agency: - - Education -home: Government -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/sebastian-jilke.md b/_team/sebastian-jilke.md deleted file mode 100644 index 76d5503d2..000000000 --- a/_team/sebastian-jilke.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Sebastian Jilke -image: /assets/img/team/sebastian_jilke.webp -year: - - 2019 - - 2020 - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: - - General Services Administration - - Social Security Administration - - Veterans Affairs -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Sebastian Jilke is an Academic Affiliate with OES, and an Associate Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. His academic work applies insights from the behavioral sciences to public management and policy. Substantively, he is interested in how institutional arrangements for public service delivery affect public employees and the people they serve – especially with regard to social equity in access to public services and programs. He also works with public organizations in the US and abroad to design and apply behavioral interventions to improve government effectiveness across different domains. diff --git a/_team/shannon-parker.md b/_team/shannon-parker.md deleted file mode 100644 index 928f0a17d..000000000 --- a/_team/shannon-parker.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Shannon Parker -image: /assets/img/team/shannon-parker.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Senior Program Manager -status: Current ---- - -Shannon Parker conducts research for and coordinates OES’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) portfolio. She additionally leads efforts to build an equity-focused portfolio of ARP evaluations and incorporate community engagement throughout the research life cycle. The OES ARP portfolio includes 10 OES-led evaluations with agency partners and 1 national evaluation contracted to an external research organization, all working to understand how the ARP helped advance equitable outcomes and what lessons can be learned to improve future recovery efforts. Prior to joining the OES, Shannon researched the civil justice system, intimate partner violence, policing, and surveillance. She holds a B.A. in Public Policy & American Institutions and East Asian Studies from Brown University, a M.A. in Government from Harvard University, and will soon receive her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. diff --git a/_team/shibeal-oflaherty.md b/_team/shibeal-oflaherty.md deleted file mode 100644 index 430dc077a..000000000 --- a/_team/shibeal-oflaherty.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Shibeal O'Flaherty -image: /assets/img/team/shibeal-oflaherty.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: - - Treasury - - Health and Human Services -title: Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Shibeal O’ Flaherty is an Associate Fellow at the Office of Evaluation Sciences. She is also a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a final year PhD candidate in Public Policy at King’s College London. Her research focuses on designing and implementing behaviourally-informed interventions to improve welfare across a range of policy areas, for example improving workplace wellbeing, increasing access to benefits and programs, and nudging sustainable behaviours. She has designed and conducted multiple field experiments with partners ranging from UK local authorities to US cities and private organizations. - -She previously worked as Research Associate at What Works for Children’s Social Care from 2019 – 2022, and as Program Assistant and later Program Manager at the Harvard Behavioral Insights Group from 2016 – 2018. She received her MRes Management (Organizational Behavior) at University College London in 2019, and MA Psychology at the University of Aberdeen in 2015. diff --git a/_team/stephanie-permut.md b/_team/stephanie-permut.md deleted file mode 100644 index a02dbd610..000000000 --- a/_team/stephanie-permut.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Stephanie Permut -image: /assets/img/team/stephanie.permut.jpeg -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Stephanie received her Ph.D. in Behavioral Decision Research and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon focused on incentive design and ethical decision making–specifically, how workplace incentives interact with psychological drivers of misconduct and how these incentives can be improved by leveraging behavioral insights. Before earning her doctorate, Stephanie received an MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. She is excited to apply her training in a meaningful policy setting at OES. diff --git a/_team/stephanie-tepper.md b/_team/stephanie-tepper.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7e60ba09d..000000000 --- a/_team/stephanie-tepper.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Stephanie Tepper -image: /assets/img/team/stephanie-tepper.webp -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Associate Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Stephanie Tepper received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University. Her research focuses on how people in the U.S. think about economic inequality and how economic disadvantage influences well-being. Stephanie also studies how to develop behavioral science interventions to promote economic opportunity. Prior to earning her doctorate, she worked as an applied researcher at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, where she developed and tested interventions with nonprofit and government partners to improve the financial well-being of people in low- to moderate-income households. Stephanie holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. diff --git a/_team/syon-bhanot.md b/_team/syon-bhanot.md deleted file mode 100644 index 77f9c1382..000000000 --- a/_team/syon-bhanot.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Syon Bhanot -image: /assets/img/team/syon_bhanot.webp -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 - - 2023 -home: University -agency: - - Treasury -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- - -Syon joined the team as an Academic Affiliate in 2021. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College. His research interests include using experimental methods to examine public policy, prosocial behavior, health behaviors, financial decision making, and topics in development economics. His work has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Economic Psychology. Syon completed a Ph.D. and M.P.P. at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. at Princeton University. diff --git a/_team/tatiana-homonoff.md b/_team/tatiana-homonoff.md deleted file mode 100644 index 829ff4cfa..000000000 --- a/_team/tatiana-homonoff.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Tatiana Homonoff -image: /assets/img/team/tatiana_homonoff.webp -year: - - 2016 -domain: -agency: - - Agriculture - - Treasury -home: University -status: Alum -title: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/tyler-simko.md b/_team/tyler-simko.md deleted file mode 100644 index 230ad3416..000000000 --- a/_team/tyler-simko.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Tyler Simko -image: /assets/img/team/tyler-simko.webp -year: - - 2022 - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: Government -agency: -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- -Tyler Simko is a PhD Candidate in Government at Harvard University, where he is affiliated with the Center for American Political Studies, the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting Methodology (ALARM) Project, and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research is focused on how public policy can be designed to reduce inequality, and methodologically focuses on tools for geographic analyses and causal inference. He is particularly passionate about teaching, and regularly offers courses in data science, public policy, and American Politics. Before starting his PhD, Tyler served two elected terms on his local school board. Tyler studied Politics / Statistics & Machine Learning at Princeton. diff --git a/_team/uzaib-saya.md b/_team/uzaib-saya.md deleted file mode 100644 index 39258a1f5..000000000 --- a/_team/uzaib-saya.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Uzaib Saya -image: /assets/img/team/uzaib-saya.jpeg -year: - - 2021 - - 2022 -agency: -status: Alum -home: University -title: Alum ---- - -Uzaib Saya is a policy researcher using tools from microeconomics and public health to evaluate the impact of health interventions and health investments. Prior to OES, Uzaib worked at the RAND Corporation where he designed, implemented and evaluated various health interventions in low and middle-income countries using experimental and quasi-experimental methods. He has in-country work experience in the United States, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, and Uganda. Uzaib holds a doctoral degree in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a masters in health policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. diff --git a/_team/will-tucker.md b/_team/will-tucker.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2dc297918..000000000 --- a/_team/will-tucker.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Will Tucker-Ray -image: /assets/img/team/tucker_will.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 - - 2017 -domain: -agency: - - Defense - - General Services Administration - - Health and Human Services - - Treasury - - Veterans Affairs -home: Non-profit -title: Alum -status: Alum ---- diff --git a/_team/willa-friedman.md b/_team/willa-friedman.md deleted file mode 100644 index 81d854ce2..000000000 --- a/_team/willa-friedman.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Willa Friedman -image: /assets/img/team/willa-friedman.webp -year: - - 2023 - - 2024 -home: University -agency: -title: Senior Evaluator -status: Current ---- -Willa Friedman is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. She uses field and natural experiments to understand how people make decisions about their own, their family's, and others' well-being, and how these decisions shape the ultimate impact of policies considered. She completed a PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley and a Bachelors in Social Studies at Harvard. She also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development, and before grad school, she worked with International Child Support/Innovations for Poverty Action in Busia, Kenya. diff --git a/_team/william-congdon.md b/_team/william-congdon.md deleted file mode 100644 index 19f1d1d4d..000000000 --- a/_team/william-congdon.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: William J. Congdon -image: /assets/img/team/congdon_bill.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 -domain: -status: Alum -agency: - - Defense - - Education - - Health and Human Services - - Labor - - Social Security Administration - - Treasury - - US Global Change Research Program -home: Non-profit -title: Alum ---- - diff --git a/_team/zhanrui-kuang.md b/_team/zhanrui-kuang.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2e59777fa..000000000 --- a/_team/zhanrui-kuang.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: Zhanrui Kuang -image: /assets/img/team/kuang_ruirui.webp -year: - - 2015 - - 2016 -domain: -status: Alum -agency: - - Agriculture - - Defense - - Health and Human Services -home: Non-profit -title: Alum ---- From a5842286966f0a78e050ad756d40f8f4e9510c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Rudy <106703393+adamRrudy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:22:20 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update navigation.yml --- _data/navigation.yml | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/_data/navigation.yml b/_data/navigation.yml index 3383d9ab4..9afc0323d 100644 --- a/_data/navigation.yml +++ b/_data/navigation.yml @@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ primary: links: - text: Mission href: /about/ - - text: Team - href: /team/ - text: Services href: /services/ - text: Our work From 522884e793a58c739a5f9e69ed9d70fe38fdda66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Rudy <106703393+adamRrudy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 12:30:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Update fellowships.md --- _connect/fellowships.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_connect/fellowships.md b/_connect/fellowships.md index bba78f8d3..989b480ca 100644 --- a/_connect/fellowships.md +++ b/_connect/fellowships.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class: summary: --- -Based at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across government to help agencies build and use evidence. +Based at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across government to help agencies build and use evidence. Team members work alongside agency collaborators to apply evidence-based insights, make concrete recommendations on how to improve government, and evaluate impact using administrative data. OES is uniquely situated at the center of government to share leading practices, develop resources, and build skills in the federal workforce on evidence and evaluation. To date, OES has completed many randomized evaluations with dozens of agency partners. OES follows the best practices in social science research to build evidence in order to be a leader in transparency and accountability. OES forms innovative partnerships to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in the United States and abroad, such as opioid prescribing, access to healthcare for Veterans, reducing energy use and costs, and improving government efficiency.