National Convening 2024 Speakers: Breakout Sessions #3

Breakout Session: Supporting and Preserving Evidence Use in the Administrative State

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Center for Progressive Reform

Goodwin is the Policy Director at the Center for Progressive Reform, which he joined in 2008. He has previously worked as a legal intern for the Environmental Law Institute and EcoLogix Group and has published articles on human rights and environmental law and policy.

Stephanie Riegg Cellini

George Washington University

Cellini is a professor of public policy and economics in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University. She is the editor of Education Finance and Policy, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Gopi Shah Goda

Standford University

Goda is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Associate Professor of Health Policy (by courtesy) and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. She has served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and is currently on the CA Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.

Breakout Session: Strategies for Engaging Chapter Members and Maximizing Impact

Deondra Rose

Duke University, North Carolina SSN

Rose is the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of Polis: Center for Politics at Duke University, as well as a member of SSN’s Chapter Advisory Council. Her research focuses on U.S. higher education policy, political behavior, American political development, and the politics of inequality.

Natasha Warikoo

Tufts University

Warikoo is Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, at Tufts University. She joins SSN’s Chapter Advisory Council this year, having served as a Boston chapter leader from 2018-23. A former Guggenheim Fellow and high school teacher, she is an expert on racial and ethnic inequality in education.

Breakout Session: Community-Engaged Research with Policy-Impacted Communities

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Facilitator: Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill

University of Houston

Tuthill's research focuses on how health inequality is reproduced across the intersections of race/ethnicity, nativity, gender identity and sexual orientation. As a previous caseworker, she has worked with historically overlooked communities to help them obtain access to health promoting resources.

Jerel Ezell

University of California Berkeley

Ezell is a social epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in Community Health Sciences. Ezell also serves as the Director of the Berkeley Center for Cultural Humility, a multi-disciplinary training center focused on education around cultural responsiveness in research, clinical practice, education, and policy.

Melissa Moore

Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)

Moore is the Director of Civil Systems Reform and works to expose the insidious ways the drug war has contaminated spaces far beyond the criminal legal system. Her work leading this new department for DPA fights how drug war policies destabilize people’s lives, separate families, and deny people resources in everyday systems.

Theresa Rocha Beardall

University of Washington

Rocha Beardall is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She completed her PhD in Sociology at Cornell University. Rocha Beardall’s research bridges the areas of race, law, inequality, policing, family policing, indigeneity, and tribal sovereignty.