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 Business Coordinator	847.467.4041	judith.alspach@northwestern.edu
Kate Antoszczyk Research Finance Assistant	847.467.7571	katarzyna.antoszczyk@northwestern.edu
Madeleine Bagnall Program Assistant	847.491.8704	maddy.bagnall@northwestern.edu
Janet Bice Assistant to the IPR Director		janet.bice@northwestern.edu
Stephanie Hallgren Program Coordinator		stephanie.hallgren@northwestern.edu
Young Kasarski Senior Research Administrator	847.491.7952	young.kasarski@northwestern.edu
Carey Mark Technical Support Specialist	847.467.6670	carey.mark@northwestern.edu
Lily Schaffer Communications Coordinator	847.467.7858	lily.schaffer@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.

Joseph Abruzzo Postdoctoral Scholar CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		joseph.abruzzo@northwestern.edu
Jackson Anderson Research Technologist 2 Foundations of Health Research Center		jackson.anderson@northwestern.edu
Noah Anderson Research Data Analyst CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		noah.anderson@northwestern.edu
Mohammad Behroozian Postdoctoral Scholar STEPP Center		mohammad.behroozian@northwestern.edu
Liza Bertoli Program Assistant IV CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		liza.bertoli@northwestern.edu
Michelle Bezark Research Associate ECREACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago*		michelle.bezark@northwestern.edu
Shaun Bhatia Research Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		shaun.bhatia@northwestern.edu
Angel Boulware Research Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		angel.boulware@northwestern.edu
Jessica Cox Research Data Analyst CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		jessica.cox@northwestern.edu
Gretchen Cusick Research Associate, Senior CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		gretchen.cusick@northwestern.edu
Johanna Dezil Research Project Manager Foundations of Health Research Center	847.467.5650	johanna.dezil@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
Trinh Ha Research Project Coordinator Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		trinh.ha@northwestern.edu
Robin Hayen Research Project Manager Foundations of Health Research Center	847.467.5650	robin.hayen@northwestern.edu
Jordan Herron Program Administrator, Sr. EC*REACH, the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago		jordan.herron@northwestern.edu
Jordan Kim Research Study Assistant Foundations of Health Research Center		JordanKim2026@u.northwestern.edu
Jungwon Kim Research Technologist, Sr. 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
Bailin Liu Research Study Assistant Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		bailin.liu@northwestern.edu
Valerie Lyne Research Study Coordinator Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education	847.467.4001	v-lyne@northwestern.edu
Alantha Miles Research Project Manager CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		alantha.miles@northwestern.edu
Jenny Nguyen Research Study Assistant Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		jenny.nguyen1@northwestern.edu
Naomi Ostrander Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		naomi.ostrander@northwestern.edu
Veronica Passarelli Research Lab Manager 1 Foundations of Health Research Center		veronica.passarelli@northwestern.edu
Katie Pelech Associate Project Director 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
Milan Rivas Research Data Analyst, Sr CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		milan.rivas@northwestern.edu
Marisa Ross Research Data Analyst Lead CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		marisa.ross@northwestern.edu
Jenn Round Research Associate Workplace Justice Lab @ Northwestern University		jenn.round@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
Michelle Shames Research Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		michelleshames2025@u.northwestern.edu
Akeem Shepherd Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		akeem.shepherd@northwestern.edu
Yasthil Singh Research Study Analyst Associate Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		yasthil.singh@northwestern.edu
Karen Smith Senior Program Coordinator CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		karen.smith@northwestern.edu
Kevin Wallace Research Data Analyst Associate CORNERS, the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science		kevinWallace2024@u.northwestern.edu
Rebecca Weiland Sr. Director of Operations 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
Ashley Zhang Research Study Assistant Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory		ashley.zhang1@northwestern.edu