2021 Junior Scholars

• Zibei Chen , Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work

• Christopher John Cruz , Assistant Professor of Economics at the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University

• Lessep Terence Duncan , Program Supervisor of the Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative program at Broward County Elderly and Veterans Services. PhD Social Work candidate at Barry University

• Marissa Eckrote-Nordland , Visiting Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

• Bahareh Eftekhari , PhD candidate in Economics at Howard University in Washington D.C.

• Vianney Gomezgil, PhD student in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge

• Megan Henly , Project Director at the Institute on Disability (IOD) at the University of New Hampshire

• Megan Hyland , PhD candidate in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University

• Felipe Juan, PhD candidate Economics at Howard University where he specializes in Urban and Labor Economics

• Kendall Moody , Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Howard University

• Yun taek Oh, PhD candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• Shogher Ohannessian , Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

• Esther Shin, PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Mila Turner , Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida A&M University

• Hyesu Yeo , PhD candidate at the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia