Graduate Alumni
Name | Mentor | Area | Year | Current Position |
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Sylvia Rusnak | Barr | LCN | 2020 | Senior Research Analyst, US Social Impact position in the Content Research Department at Sesame Workshop |
Adam Weinberger | Green | LCN | 2020 | Joint postdoc position in Anjan Chatterjee’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania and the Georgetown Laboratory for Relational Cognition |
Alyssa Mikytuck | Woolard | Joint | 2020 | Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Social and Decision Analytics Division of the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute |
Marisa Putnam | Calvert | Joint | 2019 | Research Associate at MEF Associates |
Kevin Carriere | Moghaddam | Joint | 2019 | Assistant Professor of Psychology at Washington and Jefferson College |
Christina Padilla | Ryan | Joint | 2019 | Society for Research in Child Development State Policy Postdoctoral Fellow |
Kruti Vekaria | Marsh | LCN | 2019 | Senior Research Scientist at Imagining Human |
Charles Lynch | Vaidya | LCN | 2018 | Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience in the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine |
Alaina Pearce | Vaidya | LCN | 2017 | Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University |
Erika Fountain | Woolard | HDPP | 2017 | Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County |
Elise Cardinale | Marsh | LCN | 2017 | Postdoctoral fellow in the Development & Affective Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Mental Health |
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz | Marsh | LCN | 2016 | Social & Behavioral Scientist Administrator in the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (new window) at the NIH |
Nicole Senft | Chentsova-Dutton | Joint | 2016 | Postdoctoral position in the Karmanos Cancer Institute’s Population Studies & Disparities Research Program at Wayne State University |
Anna Markowitz | Ryan | Joint | 2016 | Assistant Professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies |
Laura Zimmermann | Barr | HDPP | 2016 | Education Researcher at SRI International’s Center for Learning and Development |
Zachary Warren | Moghaddam | Joint | 2016 | Director for Policy and Research, The Asia Foundation, Kabul, Afghanistan |
Elisabeth McClure | Chentsova-Dutton | HDPP | 2015 | Research Specialist at The LEGO Foundation |
Chelsea Stillman | Howard | LCN | 2015 | Postdoctoral position in the Brain Aging & Cognitive Health Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh |
Melissa Richards | Calvert | Joint | 2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow in the Child and Family Research Section at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Child Development |
Eun-Soo Choi | Chentsova-Dutton | HDPP | 2014 | Assistant Professor at Korea University |
Sarah Vidal | Woolard | Joint | 2014 | Senior Study Director, Child Welfare and Justice, Westat |
Cristina Novoa | Moghaddam | Joint | 2014 | Early Childhood Researcher at SRI International |
Katherine Gamble | Howard | LCN | 2014 | National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow with Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Ground |
Eric Murphy | Vaidya | LCN | 2013 | Program Officer in Division of Translational Research at the National Institute of Mental Health |
Natalie Brito | Barr | HDPP | 2013 | Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt |
Anna Mikulak | Phillips | LCN | 2012 | Scientific Communications Editor (National Institute of Mental Health) at Kelly Service |
Beth Meloy | Phillips | Joint | 2012 | Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Co-Leader Early Childhood Education Team, Learning Policy Institute, Palo Alto, CA. |
Jessica Petok (Simon) | Howard | LCN | 2011 | Assistant Professor of Psychology at Saint Olaf College |
Amanda Staiano (Exner) | Calvert | Joint | 2010 | Associate Professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center; Director of Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory; Assistant Professor Adjunct in Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University |
Devon Brost Oskvig | Phillips | LCN | 2010 | Scientific Review Officer, Biobehavioral & Behavioral Processes (BBBP) IRG, Center for Scientific Review, NIH |
Melanie Stollstorff | Vaidya | LCN | 2010 | Assistant Professor of Psychology at Florida International University |
Beth Zack | Barr | HDPP | 2010 | Outreach Specialist for the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at The University of Washington |
Alexis Lauricella | Calvert | Joint | 2010 | Assistant Professor and director of the Technology in Early Childhood Center at the Erikson Institute |
Hayley Cleary | Woolard | Joint | 2010 | Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University |
Ilana Bennett | Howard | LCN | 2009 | Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside |
Amy Lowenstein | Phillips | Joint | 2009 | Project Director in Department of Psychology at Fordham University |
Naomi Lee | Moghaddam | HDPP | 2009 | Associate Researcher at WIDA Consortium Research, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Nancy Crowell | Phillips | HDPP | 2009 | Adjunct Associate Professor in Department of Human Science at Georgetown University |
Kelly Barnes | Vaidya | LCN | 2008 | Adjunct Instructor of Psychology at San Jacinto College |
Sam Harvell | Woolard | Joint | 2008 | Principal Policy Associate with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute |
**The “Joint” designation indicates the person earned a Master in Public Policy from the McCourt School in addition to a PhD in the HDPP concentration.**
***This information is current to the best of our knowledge. If you are an alumnus and would like to update your information, please email Molly Anderson.***