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Francisco Brady

Data and Policy Analyst
Francisco Brady is a data and policy analyst, working primarily on housing stability projects. Francisco has contributed to research on housing instability and homelessness in Chicago, several basic income pilots, and creating estimates of eligible p...
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Leonymae Aumentado

Senior Project Manager
Leonymae Aumentado is a senior project manager at Poverty Solutions, where she supports various research and strategic projects, including the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor pilot program and the Detroit Home Repair Resource Guide and lead-safe ...
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Faculty Directors

Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Faculty Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Public Policy
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Natasha Pilkauskas is associate faculty director at Poverty Solutions and a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research considers how demographic, social safety net, and economic shi...
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Kristin Seefeldt

Faculty Director of Poverty Solutions; Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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Kristin S. Seefeldt’s primary research interests lie in exploring how low-income individuals understand their situations, particularly around issues related to work and economic well-being. Her most recent book, "Abandoned Families: Social Isolation ...
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Sumit Agarwal

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health
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Dr. Sumit Agarwal, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a primary care physician, health economist, and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health. Agarwal’s research examines the impact of social, economic, and in...
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Luciana de Souza Leão

Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Luciana de Souza Leão is an assistant professor in the sociology department at U-M. She is a political and comparative sociologist with broad interests in knowledge-making processes, social inequalities, and the state. Her three main areas of researc...
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William Elliott

Professor of Social Work; Director, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science
William Elliott III professor of Social Work and director of the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science. He is also the founder of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion (AEDI). He received his Ph.D. and master’s in social w...
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William Lopez

Clinical Associate Professor, U-M School of Public Health; Faculty Associate, U-M Department of Latino/a Studies
William D. Lopez is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and faculty associate in the Department of Latina/o Studies. His research and teaching center on racial health inequities, especially those exper...
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Katherine Michelmore

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Katherine Michelmore is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Michelmore is a leading scholar and educator on the social safety net, education policy, labor economics, and econ...
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Sarah Miller

Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy; Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research.
Sarah Miller is an associate professor of business economics and public policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Miller's research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-te...
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Rebeccah Sokol

Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity and Associate Professor of Social Work
Rebeccah Sokol is an associate professor at the University of Michigan's School of Social Work and School of Public Health. Sokol’s program of research focuses on evaluating strategies to alleviate youth adversity and trauma, including preventing chi...
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In the Media

N.Y.C. Children May Get Up to $3,000 From City for College Accounts

Jun 1, 2026 New York Times
Plans such as NYC Kids Rise transform how children and families think about their expectations, their futures and their possibilities, said William Elliott III, a professor of social work at the University of Michigan and a leading researcher on coll...
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Hillary Clinton: How to Fix Affordability

Apr 9, 2026 New York Times
American families are raising children now, in an economy where both parents work to make ends meet and child care costs rival rent, in a country with no national paid leave and in a digital world they cannot control. Instead of lectures, families ne...
Rx Kids launch press conference. From left to right: Mama Sol, Ridgway White, Luke Shaefer, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Flint mom, Alana Turner, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Teresa Woodruff, Sheldon Neeley, a Flint mom, Day Austin, and Jim Ananich.
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Professors discuss efficacy of cash transfer policies

Mar 27, 2026 Michigan Daily
University of Michigan community members, students and faculty gathered in the Ford School of Public Policy Wednesday afternoon to attend “The debate about cash transfers,” a panel on the impacts of cash transfer programs — which provide direct payme...
U-M professors on the student moderator for The Debate on Cash Transfers panel held March 25, 2026, at the Ford School.