Garrett Hall Amphitheater on campus

OUR PEOPLE – PAST AND PRESENT

Lucy Bassett

CO-DIRECTOR

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE OF PUBLIC POLICY, BATTEN SCHOOL

Kirsten Gelsdorf

CO-DIRECTOR

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE OF PUBLIC POLICY, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN POLICY, BATTEN SCHOOL

David LeBlang

AMBASSADOR HENRY TAYLOR PROFESSOR OF POLITICS; RANDOLPH P. COMPTON PROFESSOR AT THE MILLER CENTER; PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY, BATTEN SCHOOL

OUR FACULTY, POSTDOCS, AND STAFF

Our past and present faculty and staff work with the Humanitarian Collaborative on a variety of projects and programs.

Alison Criss

Associate Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine

Luke Shimek

Affiliate Scholar, Batten School

Will Evans

Project Manager, UVA Environmental Resilience Institute

Amanda Nguyen

Research Associate Professor of Education, School of Education and Human Development

Barbara Brown Wilson

Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Planning and Faculty Director, UVA Equity Center

Kathryn Laughon

Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing

Bryan Lewis

Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute

Micheline Marcom

Professor of Creative Writing, Creative Writing Program

Paul Martin

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Batten School

Naseemah Mohamed

Postdoctoral Research Associate Humanitarian Collaborative

Sonal Pandya

Associate Professor, Politics

Michael Porter

Associate Professor of Systems Engineering, Engineering School and Darden School

Yanjun Qi

Associate Professor, Computer Science; Adjunct Faculty, Data Science; Adjunct Faculty, School of Medicine

Heman Shakeri

Assistant Professor, Data Science

Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch

Research Associate Professor, School of Education and Human Development

Sophie Trawalter

Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Psychology, Batten School

Michele Claibourn

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Batten School and Director of Equitable Analysis, The Equity Center

Kristin Clarens

Lecturer, UVA Law School

Galen Fountain

Lecturer, Batten School

Adrienne Ghaly

Assistant Professor of English, College of Arts and Sciences

OUR PRACTITIONER FELLOWS

Our and present fellows are drawn from within and beyond the University of Virginia and represent a broad range of disciples and expertise.

Carolina de Bourbon Parma

Practitioner Fellow

Kimberly Howe

Friedman School of Nutrition, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University

Jacob Kurtzer

Humanitarian Agenda, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Kerilyn Schewel

Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Jeanne Ward

Practitioner Fellow

Immaculata Mwanja

Humanitarian Open Street Map

Oliver Lacey-Hall

Practitioner Fellow

Joan Lombardi

Founder, Early Opportunities

Ruth Mukwana

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Greg Puley

Climate Team, UNOCHA

Nora Montalvo-Liendo

School of Nursing, Texas AM

Sweta Shah

Center for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution

Lissett Babaian

Practitioner Fellow

Sarah Bermeo

Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Robert Bilheimer

President/Director, Worldwide Documentaries

OUR STUDENTS

Our past and present students work with the Humanitarian Collaborative on a variety of projects and programs.

Charles Bradley

PhD, Education Leadership, Foundations, and Policy

Jackson Arnberg

MS, Statistics

Ali Acker

BA, Global Security and Justice

Makana Brooks

BA, History and Youth and Social Innovation

Anna Grace Calhoun

BA, Public Policy and Leadership

Emily Carder

BA, Economics and Politics

Katie Cox

MPP, Batten School

Mayaris Cubides Mateus

PhD, Educational Psychology and Applied Developmental Science

Hanna Davis

BA, Public Policy and Global Middle Eastern Studies

Maya Ewart

MPP, Batten School

Megan Finney

MPP, Batten School

Ned Flanagan

BA, Leadership and Public Policy and Global Development Studies

Jenny Glazier

BA, Politics

Manvi Harde

BA, Political and Social Thought and Economics

Ben Helms

PhD, Politics

Nada Ismael

BA, History

Zach Kathol

MPP, Batten School

Connor Kelly

MPP, Batten School

Wolfgang Keppley

MPP, Batten School

Mary Margaret Lea

BA, Anthropology and Psychology

Adrian Mamaril

MS, Statistics

Katie Mulder

MPP, Batten School

Kaleigh Mullins

MPP, Batten School

Rebecca Meaney

BA, Global Studies

Livie Nute

BA, Public Health and Global Studies

Kelly Owczarski

BA, Public Policy and Leadership

Catalina Perez Parra

MPP, Batten School

Guada Pinto

MPP, Batten School

Thomas Roberts

MPP, Batten School

Sophie Roehse

BA, Foreign Affairs

Max Schneider

MPP, Batten School

Sanchit Sinha

PhD, Computer Science

Noah Strike

MPP, Batten School

Stearns Swetnam

MPP, Batten School

Meagan Thompson

MPP, Batten School

Dheer Toprani

BA, Computer Science

Lily Totuteva

BA, Public Policy and Leadership

Enrique Unruh

BA, Global Development Studies

Jule Voss

MPP, Batten School

Lacey Wortzel

BA, Public Policy and Leadership

Benjamin Dooley

MPP, Batten School

Sagarika Shiehn

MPP, Batten School

Katherine Driebe

BA, Public Policy and Leadership

Eltina Sankoh

MPP, Batten School

Lucas Baylous

BA, Political and Social Thought

Leigh Bierman

MPP, Batten School

Madison Cohen

MPP, Batten School

Samantha DeMarco

BA, Global Studies

Emily Warwick

PHD, Politics