The Team
Director
CPSP Staff
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
Research Analyst
Ryan Vinh
Research Analyst
rv2540@columbia.edu
Buyi Wang
Research Analyst
Christopher Yera
Research Analyst
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
Assistant Director & Research Scientist, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center
Oscar.jimenez-solomon@nyspi.columbia.edu
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
Senior Research Fellow
Assistant Professor, Health Policy
University of California- Los Angeles
Students
Ananya Bhatia
Public Affairs Assistant
Zahra Hannan
Public Affairs Assistant
zrh2107@columbia.edu
Jiwan Lee
Doctoral Research Assistant
jiwan.lee@columbia.edu
Eunho Cha
Doctoral Research Assistant
eunho.cha@columbia.edu
Christopher Pulliam
Doctoral Research Assistant
c.pulliam@columbia.edu
Talia Orit Remba
Public Affairs Assistant
tor2105@columbia.edu
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
Director of Data Leadership & Investment, The Constellation Lab
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
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu
Professor,
Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor, Social Work University of Chicago
Professor of Quantitative Social Science,
University of Bristol