Who We Are

Our team includes research faculty, staff, and graduate students.

WEPC LEADERSHIP

Marcus A. Winters
Faculty Director &
Professor
Boston University

Meagan Comb
Executive Director

Sidrah Baloch
Assistant Director of Policy

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Elizabeth Bettini
Associate Professor
Boston University

Jesse Bruhn
Assistant Professor
Brown University

Pia Caronongan
Research Associate Professor
Boston University

Christopher Cleveland
Assistant Professor
Brown University

Olivia Chi
Assistant Professor
Boston University

William Delgado
Assistant Professor
Boston University

Joshua Goodman
Associate Professor
Boston University

Nathan Jones
Associate Professor
Boston University

Yasuko Kanno
Associate Professor
Boston University

Kevin Lang
Professor
Boston University

Daniele Paserman
Professor
Boston University

Ariel Tichnor-Wagner
Lecturer
Boston University

RESEARCH STAFF & TRAINEES

Morgan Fleming
Research Assistant

Mingyan Ma
Graduate Student
Boston University

Jessica Markham
Graduate Student
Boston University

Olivia Martin
Research Analyst

Jesse Meredith
Graduate Student
Boston University

Josefina Senese
Graduate Student
Boston University

Yunee H. Yoon
Graduate Student
Boston University

ALUMNI

Lindsey Kaler
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Watson Institute, Brown University

Alexis Orellana
Lead Economist
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Nicole Reddig
MA in Education Policy
Boston University
(2023)

Kirsten Slungaard Mumma
Assistant Professor
Teachers College, Columbia University

Joshua Goodman is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Boston University, where he works as an applied microeconomist on labor economics and education policy.

Dr. Goodman’s work has been published in peer-reviewed outlets such as AEJ: Applied Economics, AEJ: Economic Policy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. It has been cited in multiple White House reports and featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and National Public Radio. He serves as co-editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) and is a research fellow of NBER and CESifo.

Prior to joining BU, Dr. Goodman was an Associate Professor of Economics at Brandeis University and before that an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has a B.A. in physics from Harvard, an M.Phil. in education from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. Prior to starting his Ph.D., he was a public high school math teacher in Watertown, MA.