PEOPLE and Partners
Meet our team
Community to Community at Northeastern University is a dynamic team of changemakers, entrusted with leading key research initiatives that empower urban communities and effect meaningful change at the policy level.
Executive Director
Alicia Sasser
Modestino
Alicia Sasser Modestino is an Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, where she also serves as the Research Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.
Leadership team
Boston
Oakland
Campus Network Advisors
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Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor, Bioengineering; Director of Life Science and Engineering Programs, Roux InstituteRead bio -
Alicia Jalbert
Manager of Community PartnershipsRead bio -
Kate Karniouchina
Professor of Business; Dean of the Lokey School of Business and Public PolicyRead bio -
Ted Landsmark
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional PolicyRead bio -
Kimberly Lucas
Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Economic JusticeRead bio -
Carrie Maultsby-Lute
Head of Partnerships-Oakland CampusRead bio
Faculty Affiliates
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Jared Auclair
Vice Provost Research Economic Development, Director of Bioinnovation at NortheasternRead bio -
Omar Badrelin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering ProgramsRead bio -
Tracy Corley
Director of Programs, CSSH, Arlington Campus; Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban AffairsRead bio -
Amy Farrell
Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research LabRead bio -
Steve Flynn
Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute, affiliated faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban AffairsRead bio -
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor, Bioengineering; Director of Life Science and Engineering Programs, Roux InstituteRead bio -
Julia Ivy
Executive Professor; Teaching Professor, International Business and StrategyRead bio -
Kristian Kloeckl
Associate Professor, College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD)Read bio -
Laura Kuhl
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International AffairsRead bio -
Jamie Ladge
Professor and Group Chair, Management and Organizational DevelopmentRead bio -
Alisa Lincoln
Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, Professor of Health Sciences and SociologyRead bio -
John Lowrey
Assistant professor of Supply Chain & Information Management, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, joint-appointment at Bouvé College of Health SciencesRead bio -
Mindy Marks
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesRead bio -
Mikhail Oet
Associate Teaching Professor and Lead Faculty in the MS in Commerce and Economic Development programRead bio -
Lorien Rice
Professor of Economics, College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesRead bio -
Mary Steffel
Associate Professor of Marketing, Joseph G. Riesman Research Professor, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, affiliated faculty at the School of Public Policy and Urban AffairsRead bio -
Christo Wilson
Associate Professor, Director of the BS in Cybersecurity ProgramRead bio -
Elizabeth Zulick
Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Lowell Institute SchoolRead bio
Policy Fellows and Seed Grantees
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Ashley Adams
Establishing the Nicodemus Descendant Genealogy DatabaseEstablishing the Nicodemus Descendant Genealogy Database
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Omar Badreldin
Analyzing Existing Data to Justify Recent Policy Changes in Zoning in Ontario, CanadaEstablishing the Nicodemus Descendant Genealogy Database
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Katherine Hazen
Boston Human Exploitation and Trafficking (HEAT) Evaluability AssessmentEstablishing the Nicodemus Descendant Genealogy Database
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Brianna Keefe-Oates
Out-of-state travel for abortion in New England: Identifying support strategiesRead bio -
John Lowrey
The Health Quality, Cost, and Clinical Productivity Benefit of a Food Referral Program: Building on Existing Evidence from the MidOhio FarmacyRead bio -
Rebekah E. Moore
Black Artists Creating a Culture of Health through Arts-in-Health CollaborationsRead bio -
Adam Parker
Dress for SuccessRead bio -
Deborah Ramirez
Jail to Jobs (J2J) Pipeline ProjectRead bio -
Katherine Simmonds
Generating Evidence-Based Guidelines for Green Space Access and DesignRead bio -
Juliana Spahr
Who Gets to Be a Writer?: Studying Equity in Contemporary US LiteratureRead bio -
Carol Theokary
The Equity Toll of “Business as Usual” during the Pandemic: Can we do better?Read bio -
Jane Yamashiro
Okinawan Community Writing Project: Decolonizing Culture through Research JusticeRead bio
The Research Lab
Policy Fellows and Seed Grantees
Research Assistants
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Misha Ankudovych
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Eric Bell
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Eric Bell
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Peiran Cheng
Post-Doctoral FellowRead bio -
Zach Finn
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
JD Foster
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
Maria Jerghiuta
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Oscar Navarro
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
Disha Pansuriya
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
Disha Pansuriya
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
Sophie Sawyers
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Samara Shankar
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Samuel Westby
PhD Research AssistantRead bio -
Emily Wu
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio -
Emma Young
Undergraduate Research AssistantRead bio
Location
110 Churchill Hall 360
Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373–2000
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