
Anna Cass
Student Communications Assistant

Natalie Chong
Graduate Research Assistant
Natalie Chong is a doctoral student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management where she studies health policy and health services research. Her research interests include access to and quality of end-of-life care, as well as aging and health policy issues that impact older adults. She is also an analyst in RTI International’s Quality Measurement and Health Policy Program, where she works to develop performance measures for federal quality reporting programs in post-acute care settings.

Emily Crandall
Graduate Research Assistant

Gabrielle Katz
Graduate Research Assistant

Maddy Pliskin
Undergraduate Communications Assistant
Maddy Pliskin is an undergraduate communications assistant at the Lurie Institute. Previously, she was an Undergraduate Fellow in Disability Policy. She is a junior majoring in Biology and Health: Science, Society and Policy (HSSP). Outside Lurie, Maddy is a member of Chabad Club and volunteers with elderly patients in hospice. As an undergraduate fellow, Maddy researched opioid misuse among people with disabilities under her mentor Rachel Sayko Adams.

Kartik Trivedi
Graduate Research Assistant
Kartik Trivedi, MPA, is a PhD student interested in workplace inclusion, career pathways, and economic self-sufficiency as related to persons with disabilities. Kartik has several years of experience as a researcher in the workforce policy and inclusion. He has also worked as a researcher in development policies in India. If not in class or at work, you can find him taking photographs on the streets of Boston and surrounding areas. He also thinks that he makes the best chai on the east coast, a claim which is yet to be proven through conclusive research.