
Bridgit Burns

Reid Caplan

Yu-Han Chen

Anna Clements
Anna Clements is a doctoral student interested in exploring institutional causes of the school to prison pipeline for people of color with mental or cognitive disabilities. During her undergraduate studies, she served on University of Michigan’s Council for Disability Concerns, and she has presented on disability rights in the US and abroad. Before coming to Heller, Anna completed a master’s degree in international human rights law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway, Ireland, interned at the Centre for Disability Studies in Hyderabad, India, and worked in the US with nonprofits focusing on racial justice, immigrant rights, and disability services.

Sarah Jerome

Jennifer LaFleur
Jenny is a PhD candidate in the Children,Youth and Families concentration. Jenny received a BA from Carleton College and an EdM from Harvard University. Her research seeks to apply Critical Race Theory, critical geography, and practice theory to analyses of social problems and social policy. Her work considers how built and social space are constitutive of a raced and classed social structure, and how these spaces facilitate the reproduction or disruption of inequality. Additionally, she is interested in how current social policy’s market logics interface with social structures to shape outcomes for historically and contemporarily minoritized individuals. Her recent research examines how: privatization impacts educational opportunity; residential segregation influences children’s exposure to disease and chronic health conditions; the parents of Black and Latinx students view inter-district school desegregation programs; and the impact of neighborhood contexts and resources on outcomes for public school students with disabilities.

Megan Madison
Megan Pamela Ruth Madison is a PhD candidate concentrating in child, youth, and family policy. She received an MS in early childhood education from Dominican University and a BA in studies in religion from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include education policy, the teaching workforce, and racial equity. Her mixed-method dissertation employs Critical Race Theory to explore the impact of "colorblind" policymaking on the racial/ethnic diversity and stratification of the early care and education teaching workforce.

Ian Moura

Dakota Roundtree-Swain

Roberto Salva
Roberto S. Salva is the current Sol Chick and Rosalind B. Chaikin Endowed Fellow in child and family policy. He holds an MPA from the National University of Singapore and a BS in Statistics from the University of the Philippines. Before coming to Heller, he led the EU-funded baseline study on child participation in the ASEAN and the ASEAN Member States; drafted guidelines on child participation for the deliberation of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Women and Children; peer reviewed the Philippine study on violence against children, and consulted for various nonprofit organizations including The Asia Foundation, Save the Children and Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation. Before that, he led a nonprofit organization for the deaf in the Philippines for six years and worked with urban poor communities through research and community organizing.