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About...Our Staff |
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Dr. Patrick Wolf, Principal Investigator
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Dr. Jay Greene, Co-Investigator
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Dr. John Witte, Co-Investigator
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Dr. Nada Eissa, Senior Research Associate
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Dr. Frederick Hess, Senior Research Associate
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Dr. Thomas Stewart, Senior Research Associate
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Stephen Cornman, Esq., Project Administrator
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Daniel Hoople, Deputy Project Administrator
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Rachel Ungerer Greszler, Data Analyst/Research Assistant
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Darnita Akers, Research Assistant
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Jessica Boccardo, Research Assistant
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Donald Brown, Research Assistant
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Dean Campbell, Research Assistant
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Margaret Price, Research Assistant
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Elizabeth Rutzick, Research Assistant
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| Stephen Cornman, Esq. M.P.A. |
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| Contact Stephen Cornman
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| Stephen Q. Cornman is the administrator of the Georgetown University School choice Demonstration Project.
He is public policy specialist with ten years of government experience as Chief of Policy for the largest County
in New Jersey, Deputy Director of the Essex County, NJ Improvement Authority and Policy/Budget Assistant to former
Borough President Fernando Ferrer in New York City. Cornman has directed the implementation of federal grants
from the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Environmental Protection, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
As the former chief of policy and planning for Essex County, New Jersey, he designed a community based welfare-to-work system
that reduced the welfare rolls from 32,000 to 16,000 people. He practiced law for eight years, specializing in civil litigation trials.
Cornman has professional degrees in public affairs and law. He is a Columbia University MPA and Thomas Jefferson School of Law JD,
an active member of the District of Columbia Bar, and a candidate for a PhD at Columbia University.
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Daniel Hoople, M.P.P. |
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| Contact Daniel Hoople
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| Daniel Hoople is deputy project administrator for the School Choice Demonstration Project. He has done extensive work with the D.C.
Opportunity Scholarship Program Evaluation including student test administration, analysis and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data,
and report preparation. He recently co-authored a forthcoming article with Dr. Patrick Wolf in the Peabody Journal of Education titled “Looking
Inside the Black Box: What School Factors Explain Voucher Gains in Washington, DC?” A native of the Milwaukee region, Mr. Hoople graduated summa
cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and received his M.P.P. from the Georgetown Public Policy
Institute with a specialization in education, family, and social policy. His prior experience includes research on transportation legislation for the
National League of Cities and health care for the British Parliament. He also volunteered for two years as a teacher and coordinator in a low-income area,
private elementary school located in South Bend, IN. |
Rachel Ungerer Greszler |
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| Rachel Greszler is a data analyst and research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project and a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Rachel graduated
summa cum laude from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA in May 2003 with a B.A. in economics. She completed her M.A. in economics from Georgetown University in May 2005.
She has experience in qualitative and quantitative policy analysis in the fields of education policy and Social Security reform. As an intern at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, she
carried out a project measuring the impact of various Social Security reforms on women. IN addition to her policy research, Rachel has experience as a teaching assistant for undergraduate principles of macro and microeconomics and graduate microeconomics. |
Darnita Akers |
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| Darnita Akers is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project and is a graduate student at the Georgetown Public
Policy Institute. She is a graduate of Howard University School of Law and practiced as an intellectual property attorney prior to coming to Georgetown.
Darnita is a member of the California and District of Columbia Bars and is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
She earned her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and has experience in applied science research.
She worked as a research assistant in the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Louisiana State University Medical School in Shreveport, LA and in the Pulmonary
Medicine Department at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Darnita also has experience volunteering with several tutoring and mentoring programs for
high school students both in Houston and the District of Columbia. |
Jessica Boccardo |
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| Jessica Boccardo is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project. She is a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute,
with a combined interest in education and international development. She graduated in July 2004 from the University of San Andres in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
with a B.A in Economics, after presenting a thesis on the differences in Educational Mobility among Argentinean regions. She has had experience doing research in
a private non profit organization called Fundacion Mediterranea, mainly focusing on federal and fiscal reforms through a political economy approach. |
Donald Brown |
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| Don Brown is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project. He is a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, with an interest in program evaluation and fiscal policy.
He spent two years working for a contractor with the National Science Foundation to implement programs aimed at promoting teaching excellence in K-12 mathematics and science. Prior to that, he interned at the New America Foundation in
Washington, DC, providing research support to the fiscal policy program director. He graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, with a B.A. in political science, and served as a research assistant at the Paul B. Henry Institute and at the Center for Social Research. |
Dean Campbell |
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| Dean Campbell is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project and is a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Dean
graduated from Pomona College in 1999 with Distinction for his senior thesis, a cost-benefit analysis of a public policy issue. Prior to enrolling at GPPI, Dean worked
for several companies in the private sector, most recently as the Controller of a software company in Mountain View, California. He also serves as a board member of a non-profit
charitable organization based in California. |
Margaret Price |
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| Margaret Price is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project and is a graduate student
at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia in government and anthropology.
Most recently Margaret taught elementary, middle, and high school in Colorado where she earned a Colorado Teaching License
in secondary social studies. Prior to moving to Colorado she worked for two years as Coordinator and Assistant to the Director
for Charter School Programs at the American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE) in Washington, DC, a non-profit that piloted an
accreditation program for academically rigorous charter schools nationwide. Margaret also has experience as an education consultant for the
American Board for the Certification for Teacher Excellence and as a site visitor and member of the Board of Review for AALE. |
Elizabeth Rutzick |
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| Elizabeth Rutzick is a research assistant for the School Choice Demonstration Project and a graduate student at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.
She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a B.A. in American History, where she also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received
Honors for an independently-researched thesis. Prior to coming to Georgetown, Elizabeth worked for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the University of
California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also worked for Higher Achievement Program, a supplementary school program for D.C. public school
students, and the Center for Research on Children in the Unites States. She is a native of Portland, Oregon. |
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