The Team
Director
CPSP Staff
Chantal N. Bannerman
Study Coordinator,
Poverty Tracker Studies
Research Director
Lolita Colon
Study Coordinator,
Poverty Tracker Studies
Michelle Corbeaux
Grants Manager
Policy Director
Communications Associate
Yajun Jia
Survey Methodologist
Anastasia Koutavas
Research Analyst
Xiaofang Liu
Study Coordinator,
Poverty Tracker Studies
Schuyler Ross
Data Manager,
Poverty Tracker Studies
Daniel Salgado
Study Coordinator,
Room to Grow Evaluation
Ryan Vinh
Research Analyst
rv2540@columbia.edu
Affiliated Staff
Ashley Giselle Ortega
Assistant Research Systems Engineer, Columbia Population Research Center
Affiliated Faculty and Research Scientists
Associate Professor of Social Work
Professor of Economics,
Barnard College
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education, Columbia Teachers College
Professor of Social Policy and Social Work
Professor Emeritus,
Center on Poverty and Social Policy Co-Founder
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Professor of Social Policy
Senior Research Scientist,
Faculty of Social Work
kmn2@columbia.edu
Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice
rm905@columbia.edu
Professor of Social Work and Sociology
Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems
j.waldfogel@columbia.edu
Research Fellows
David B. Harris
Students
Christian Baclao
Research Assistant,
Room to Grow
cab2355@columbia.edu
Tara Battersby
Research Assistant,
Poverty Tracker
Alejandro Centeno
Research Assistant,
Room to Grow
alejandro.a.centeno@columbia.edu
Eunho Cha
Doctoral Research Assistant
eunho.cha@columbia.edu
Janira Gayle
Research Assistant,
Poverty Tracker
jeg2247@columbia.edu
Zahra Hannan
Public Affairs Assistant
zrh2107@columbia.edu
Doctoral Research Assistant
Research Scientist, NYSPI, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
ogj2102@columbia.edu
Jiwan Lee
Doctoral Research Assistant
jiwan.lee@columbia.edu
Jianan Li
Research Assistant,
Poverty Tracker
jl6075@columbia.edu
Ashley Morales
Public Affairs Assistant
arm2306@columbia.edu
Christopher Pulliam
Doctoral Research Assistant
c.pulliam@columbia.edu
Angelina Ross
Research Assistant,
Room to Grow
agr2162@columbia.edu
Ho Yan Wong
Research Assistant,
Poverty Tracker
External Affiliates
Clinical Assistant Professor, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies,
Georgia State University
Assistant Professor of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
RitaGabriela.Barajas-Gonzalez@nyulangone.org
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Social Work
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Policy and Advocacy Associate,
Citizens' Committee for Children of New York
Economist,
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Research Associate, Psychology
Loyola Marymount University
Research Scholar,
New York University
Research Scientist,
The Bridge at NORC
Associate Professor,
Criminology, Law and Society
University of California, Irvine
Associate Economist,
Economic Innovation Group
Associate Professor, Public Policy,
Georgetown University
Assistant Professor,
Health Policy and Management,
City University of New York
University of Adelaide
Assistant Professor, Sociology
The City University of New York
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Health and Society Research Group
The City University of New York
mlennon@gc.cuny.edu
Professor, Social Work
The City University of New York
vl531@hunter.cuny.edu
Professor, Public Administration and Policy
American University
Research Associate, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Rutgers University
Assistant Professor of Social Welfare,
Pusan National University
Associate Professor, Social Work
Rutgers University
Senior Researcher,
Mathematica
Assistant Professor, Social Work
University of Wisconsin-Madison
pac@wisc.edu
Chief of Data Science and Research
Kids First Chicago
pacas002@umn.edu
Associate Professor, Public Policy
University of Michigan
Assistant Professor, Social Work
University of Nebraska Omaha
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY
mslopen@gc.cuny.edu
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu
Professor,
Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare, University of California-Los Angeles
Professor of Quantitative Social Science,
University of Bristol
Assistant Professor, Health Policy
University of California- Los Angeles