Staff Directory: Institute for Policy Research

Staff Directory

IPR’s administrative leaders guide and enable the Institute’s mission of interdisciplinary research for the common good.

IPR administration and contact information
Name	Phone	Email
Andrew Papachristos Director and the John G. Searle Professor of Sociology	847.491.8704	avp@northwestern.edu
Laurel Harbridge-Yong Associate Director and Professor of Political Science	847.467.1147	l-harbridge@northwestern.edu
Francesca Gaiba Senior Director of Operations and Outreach and IPR Research Professor	847.467.0528	gaiba@northwestern.edu
Eric Betzold Business Administrator	847.491.8707	betzold@northwestern.edu
Patricia Reese Director of Communications	847.491.8712	p-reese@northwestern.edu

IPR's core administrative staff support faculty research and run labs, manage and promote events, and communicate and publish findings.

IPR administrative staff and contact information
Name	Phone	Email
Judy Alspach Research Finance Assistant	847.467.4041	judith.alspach@northwestern.edu
Nick Benson Program Assistant	847.491.8704	nicholas.benson@northwestern.edu
Christen Gall Senior Communications Coordinator	847.467.7858	christen.gall@northwestern.edu
Stephanie Hallgren Program Coordinator		stephanie.hallgren@northwestern.edu
Young Kasarski Senior Research Administrator	847.491.7952	young.kasarski@northwestern.edu
Mauve Kay Assistant to the Director	847.491.4121	mauve@northwestern.edu
Carey Mark Technical Support Specialist	847.467.6670	carey.mark@northwestern.edu
Lily Schaffer Communications Coordinator	847.491.7952	lily.schaffer@northwestern.edu
Daniel Watson Business Coordinator	847.467.7571	daniel.watson@northwestern.edu
Lex Winter Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications	847.491.2597	lex.winter@northwestern.edu

IPR research staff manage and coordinate faculty-directed research projects and labs.

IPR research staff and contact information
Name	Phone	Email
Noah Anderson Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		noah.anderson@northwestern.edu
Jeremy Bell Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		jeremy.bell@northwestern.edu
Alex Ben Ghanem Research Data Analyst CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		alex.benghanem@northwestern.edu
Liza Bertoli Program Assistant IV CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		liza.bertoli@northwestern.edu
Susan Burtner Scientific Director CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		susan.burtner@northwestern.edu
Jamela Clark Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		jamela.clark@northwestern.edu
Maia Connors Executive Director EC*REACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago		maia.connors@northwestern.edu
Jessica Cox Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		jessica.cox@northwestern.edu
Johanna Dezil Research Project Manager Foundations of Health Research Center	847.467.5650	johanna.dezil@northwestern.edu
Angela D'Souza Associate Director of Research Programs CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		amdsouza@northwestern.edu
Litany Esguerra Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		litany.esguerra@northwestern.edu
Isabel Farrar Program Administrator, Sr EC*REACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago		isabel.farrar@northwestern.edu
Shanti Gallivan Research Study Assistant Foundations of Health Research Center		shantiGallivan2024@u.northwestern.edu
Yulan Guo Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		YulanGuo2024@u.northwestern.edu
Trinh Ha Research Study Assistant Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		trinh.ha@northwestern.edu
Robin Hayen Research Project Coordinator Foundations of Health Research Center		robin.hayen@northwestern.edu
Jordan Herron Partner Engagement Manager EC*REACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago		jordan.herron@northwestern.edu
Jungwon Kim Research Technologist II Foundations of Health Research Center		jungwon.kim@northwestern.edu
Rebecca Kotler Project Director CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		rebecca-kotler@northwestern.edu
Valerie Lyne Research Study Coordinator Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education	847.467.4001	v-lyne@northwestern.edu
Ayanna Michel-Strauder Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		ayanna.michelstrauder@northwestern.edu
Alantha Miles Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		alantha.miles@northwestern.edu
Hee Moon Research Technologist II Foundations of Health Research Center		hee.moon@northwestern.edu
Megan Morrell Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		megan.morrell@northwestern.edu
Vanessa Obi Research Study Coordinator, Sr Foundations of Health Research Center		vanessa.obi@northwestern.edu
Naomi Ostrander Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		naomi-ostrander@northwestern.edu
Veronica Passarelli Research Technologist III Foundations of Health Research Center		veronica.passarelli@northwestern.edu
Katie Pelech Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		kaitlin.pelech@northwestern.edu
Adam Pittman Research Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		adam.pittman@northwestern.edu
Arthur Raines Research Data Analyst Associate EC*REACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago		arthur.raines@northwestern.edu
Akash Rathi Research Data Analyst Associate Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		akash.rathi@northwestern.edu
Milan Rivas Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		milan.rivas@northwestern.edu
Marisa Ross Director of Research and Policy CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		marisa.ross@northwestern.edu
Hibiki Sakai Research Data Analyst CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		hibiki.sakai@northwestern.edu
Kelley Sarussi Database Systems Engineer CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		kelley.sarussi@northwestern.edu
Akeem Shepherd Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		akeem.shepherd@northwestern.edu
Karen Smith Senior Program Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		karen.smith@northwestern.edu
Melanie Stratton-Lopez Research Associate Workplace Justice Lab @ Northwestern University		melanie.stratton@northwestern.edu
Georgia Tankard Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		georgia.tankard@northwestern.edu
Helena Thomas Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		helena.thomas@northwestern.edu
Kevin Wallace Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		kevinWallace2024@u.northwestern.edu
Rebecca Weiland Assistant Director CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science	847.467.1755	rebecca.weiland@northwestern.edu
Jenna Williams Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		jenna.williams@northwestern.edu
Dallas Wright Assistant Director of Communications CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science	847.491.1206	dallas.wright@northwestern.edu
Janet Zamudio Research Project Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		janet.zamudio@northwestern.edu