Institute for Economic and Racial Equity

Our Team

Faculty and Staff

Sangeeta Tyagi

Director of the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity;  Senior Scientist
Tatjana Meschede

Tatjana Meschede

Associate Director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity; Senior Scientist; Senior Lecturer

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Susie Flug-Silva, Segal Program Director

Susanna Flug-Silva

Segal Program Director; Segal Program Leadership Team; IERE
781-736-3933
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Alexandra Pineros-Shields, PhD'07

Alexandra Piñeros-Shields

Associate Professor of PracticeMaster in Public Policy Program Director  

781-736-8680
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Linda Pololi

Distinguished Research Scientist, National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine: C-Change
lpololi@brandeis.edu
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Ezra Tefera

Ezra Tefera

Racial Justice x Tech Policy Project Program Director and Researcher
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Lanni Isenberg

Senior Program Administrator, Center for Youth and Communities and Executive Assistant to Anita Hill
781-736-4835

Marji Erickson Warfield

Senior Scientist and Lecturer; Chair, MPP and Social Impact MBA concentrations in Child, Youth and Family Policy
781-736-3833 
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Lisa Lynch, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy and director, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity

Lisa Lynch

Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy and Affiliated Research Faculty, Institute for Economic and Racial Equity
Maria Madison, Interim Dean

Maria Madison

IERE Scholar Affiliate
Thomas Shapiro

Thomas Shapiro

Research Professor

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David Weil

Professor of Social and Economic Policy
davweil@brandeis.edu

Matthew Hoover

Senior Research Associate
Madeline Smith-Gibbs

Madeline Smith-Gibbs

Director of Development; Senior Research Associate

Sylvia Stewart, MPP'18

Sylvia Stewart

Director of Research Communications; Senior Research Associate

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Susan M. Willis

Director of C-Change Survey Research Development
suwillis@brandeis.edu 

Eunjung Jee, Research Associate

Eunjung Jee

Research Associate

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Visiting Scholars

Janet Boguslaw

Visiting Research Scholar

Renada Goldberg

Visiting Research Scholar

Della M. Hughes

Visiting Research Scholar
Rebecca Loya

Rebecca Loya

Visiting Research Scholar

Alan Melchior

Visiting Research Scholar

Sarah Soroui

Visiting Research Scholar