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Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Faculty Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Public Policy
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
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
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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Kate Cagney

Director of the Institute for Social Research, Professor of Sociology
Kathleen A. Cagney, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and professor of sociology. Her research examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course. He...
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Gabriel Cuellar

Assistant Professor of Architecture
Gabriel Cuéllar is an assistant professor in architecture. His design-research focuses on collective landholding practices, housing justice, contemporary environmental politics, and the role of architecture in struggles for spatial justice. He is an ...
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Luciana de Souza Leão

Assistant Professor of Sociology
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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Margaret Dewar

Professor Emerita of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Margaret Dewar’s research is in the broad areas of economic development, housing and community development, urban environmental planning and urban land use. Her current projects address remaking cities following abandonment and strengthening deterior...
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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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Carina Gronlund

Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health
Carina Gronlund is an environmental epidemiologist and research associate professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health. With community and government partners, she characterizes how social, eco...
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Sara Heller

Associate Professor of Economics
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Sara Heller studies interventions to reduce crime and improve other life outcomes among disadvantaged youth. She uses large-scale experiments to isolate the causal effects of a variety of programs, including cognitive behavioral therapy-based interve...
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Pamela Herd

Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy
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Pamela Herd is the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging, and policy. She is als...
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Noura Insolera

Assistant Research Scientist at Institute for Social Research, Assistant Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Noura Insolera is an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and assistant director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Insolera's research focuses on health, educational, and socioeconomic outcomes of income inequality a...
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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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Robert Manduca

Assistant Professor of Sociology; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center; Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Robert Manduca is an assistant professor in U-M's Department of Sociology. His research asks why some people and some places are more economically prosperous than others. His recent work examines the role that national policy decisions play in determ...
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Katherine Michelmore

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
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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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Don Moynihan

Professor of Public Policy
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Donald Moynihan is the Ford School's J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy. Previously he served as Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy Chair of Public Policy and the director of the La Follette School at the U...
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Michael Mueller-Smith

Associate Professor of Economics, Director of the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System
Mike Mueller-Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and faculty associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on measuring the scope and prevalence of the criminal justice system in the U.S. as well as its b...
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Pamela Smock

Professor of Sociology and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center
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Pamela Smock is a professor of sociology and research professor at the Population Studies Center at U-M. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of demography and various axes of inequality. Her research focuses on changing family pattern...
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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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Amanda Nothaft

Director of Data & Analysis
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Amanda Nothaft has extensive experience in data analysis and policy evaluation and has worked across multiple levels of government and a wide variety of policy stakeholders. Prior to joining Poverty Solutions, Nothaft worked on projects as diverse as...
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In the Media

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.