Embedded Files
Anthony (Tony) DamianoFaculty Advisor: Professor Ed GoetzAreas of Expertise: Housing policy, urban political economy, neighborhood change, policy analysisdamia025@umn.edu
Anthony (Tony) Damiano grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, and graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in Political Science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) from the Humphrey School in 2014. As both a graduate research assistant as well as a staff researcher with the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the U of M, Damiano worked with Professor Edward Goetz on projects such as modeling programs to fund affordable housing through property taxes; detailing changing patterns of racial and economic segregation in the US; and investigating the spatial distribution of federal housing expenditures. Their research has been featured in such publications as Next City and The Atlantic. He has also worked with the Community GIS program at CURA by providing technical assistance and data analysis to local neighborhood organizations and non-profits. In the PhD program, Damiano will continue his housing policy research and plans to focus on the politics and policy of housing and its connections to broader urban policy issues such as racial and economic equity, segregation and sprawl.
Kirti DasFaculty Advisor: Associate Professor Yingling FanAreas of Expertise: Urban planning impacts on public heath, urban sustainability, public transit research, social equity implications of planning
dasxx054@umn.edu
Kirti Vardhan Das has an undergraduate degree in Architecture from Nagpur University, India. He earned his Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the Humphrey School in 2009 where he was a member of a student team that co-authored the Suitability Action Plan adopted by the City of Forest Lake, MN. During his master’s program, he was the recipient of the Humphrey Alumni Scholarship and the Richard Bolan Award. Das has worked as an associate architect and master planner in New Delhi, India and is currently a research fellow at the Humphrey School. His work includes conducting and managing research initiatives related to urban planning, public health, integration of technology and planning, and program evaluation for government agencies. He has published papers on transportation finance, urban infrastructure, equity and health and presented research projects to local and national audiences. Das will focus on social equity implications of planning.
myhre004@umn.edu
Myhre Errecaborde graduated with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2012. Following graduate school she was selected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow where she worked for the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee (minority 2012) on a global health portfolio and later with the Senate Homeland Security Committee (majority 2013) on a science and technology portfolio. In 2013, she returned to University of Minnesota for a faculty position working on the USAID RESPOND project. She currently leads the Asia team for the follow-on USAID One Health Workforce project. This project primarily focuses on building public health capacities in Central and East Africa and in Southeast Asia to prevent pandemic disease. As part of her faculty appointment, she also leads a policy unit in the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety where she teaches a policy brief writing course and supports outreach activities with both local and federal policy makers on issues in food, agriculture and nutrition. As a graduate student, she pursued opportunities to work with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, the Institute on Agriculture and Technology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., all of which have added great breadth and inspiration for her current profession and academic aspirations.
Kaylee Myhre ErrecabordePronouns: She/Her/Hers
Faculty Advisor: Professor Jodi Sandfort
Areas of Expertise: Global health policy, international development, infectious disease preparedness and response, organizational development, government/academic partnerships
Jason HicksFaculty Advisor: Professor Morris KleinerAreas of Expertise: Econometrics, labor economics, occupational licensing, inequality, immigrationhicks208@umn.edu
Jason Hicks has a Master of Public Policy degree from the Humphrey School. Jason’s research interests lie at the intersection of public policy, labor economics, and racial and socio-economic inequality. Jason has extensive experience in statistics and econometrics and has served as a teaching assistant for a variety of statistics and economics courses, including Multivariate Techniques, Accelerated Regression Analysis, and Economics of Policy Analysis and Planning. He will serve as the primary instructor for PA 5033 – Multivariate Techniques during the spring 2016 semester. His capstone paper, “Diagnosing Healthcare in America: Impacts of Immigrants and Occupational Licensing,” won the Lloyd B. Short Award for best capstone paper at the Humphrey School in 2014. This paper was also published in the Humphrey Public Affairs Review. Additionally, Jason has a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Resources and Conservation Genetics from the University of Idaho. His wildlife genetics research has been published in the Journal of Mammalogy, Conservation Biology, and The Southwestern Naturalist.
Yunlei Qi, a native of China, has an undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Management (minor in Economics) and a master’s degree in Regional Economics in Peking University in China and has won the Outstanding Graduates twice. She has published three papers about the relationship between transit and spatial mismatch as well as job accessibility of Beijing, capital of China. Together with her supervisor, Prof. Greg Lindsey, she also studied the pedestrian and bicycle traffic volumes on The Bloomingdale Trail (The 606) in Chicago. Now she focused on her dissertation—Transit Induced Gentrification and The Role of Displacement. The dissertation focuses on the large US metropolitan areas and is designed to answer three major questions: 1) Do the new rapid transit lines induce gentrification? 2) what factors affect the presence of Transit-Induced Gentrification? And 3) How pervasive is the displacement in the Transit-Induced Gentrification and What factors affect the presence and magnitude of the displacement?
Yunlei QiPronouns: she/her/hers
Faculty Advisor: Professor Greg Lindsey
Areas of Expertise: Transit, Gentrification, Spatial mismatch, social equity
Danbi Seo is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs with Management and Governance concentration. Danbi’s core research interests relate to public and nonprofit management, leadership, strategic planning, and organization theory, with a focus on the development process of collaborative governance. Through her research, Danbi seeks to understand the ways in which inter-organizational collaboration can contribute to addressing social challenges. Danbi employs longitudinal qualitative case study methods to examine the processes of how collaboration in public and nonprofit sectors unfolds, and the strategies for managing effective and sustainable collaboration. Danbi has an undergraduate degree in Ethics Education (summa cum laude) and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, both from the Seoul National University.
danbiseo@umn.edu
https://danbiseo.weebly.com
Danbi SeoFaculty Advisor: Professor John BrysonAreas of Expertise: Public and nonprofit management, Collaborative governance, Leadership, Organizational behaviors, Qualitative data analysis
Jueyu (Olivia) WangFaculty Advisor: Professor Greg LindseyAreas of Expertise: Active transportation, interaction between transportation and land use, spatial equity
wang5931@umn.edu
Olivia Wang has a focus in Urban Planning. She obtained her master degree from University of Southern California with a concentration in transportation and infrastructure planning. She worked at the Modeling and Forecasting Department of Southern California Association of Governments and was involved in the development of Regional Transportation Demand Modeling and Activity-Based Model. Olivia currently studies non-motorized transportation, including the interaction between active transportation and built environment, potential health and environmental benefits of active transportation, and spatial equity issues related to active transportation. Olivia Wang also has a strong interest in exploring the self-evident but elusive interaction between transportation and land use, travel behavior analysis and the social implications of urban transportation. Her goal is to pursue an academic career in the field of transportation planning, dedicated to resolving complex urban transportation problems and seeking creative approaches to help develop a sustainable urban future.
Page updated
Report abuse