People

The faculty and staff of the Scrivner Institute are defined by their passion, expertise and dedication to using public policy as a tool to create a more just, equitable and healthy world. The Institute draws faculty from across the Korbel School and the whole University to ensure its research, programming, and curriculum interrogates policy in an interdisciplinary and holistic way. Learn more about them and how they're advancing positive public policy solutions below.

Scrivner Institute Team

Katie Aker

Assistant Director
Scrivner Institute
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Naazneen Barma

Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Director, Scrivner Institute
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Scrivner Faculty

Naazneen Barma

Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Director, Scrivner Institute
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Stefan Chavez-Norgaard

Teaching Assistant Professor
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Ajenai Clemmons

Lapo Salucci

Teaching Professor
Degree Director, Public Policy
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Kaitlyn Sims

Korbel Faculty

Deborah Avant

Professor
Sié Chéou-Kang Chair
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Rachel A. Epstein

Rebecca B. Galemba

Professor
Co-Director, Center for Immigration Policy and Research
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Frank N. Laird

Frederick "Fritz" Mayer

Linda Méndez-Barrientos

Tamra Pearson d'Estrée

Professor
Degree Director, Global Environmental Sustainability
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Martin Rhodes

Professor
Director of Research
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Rachel Sigman

Other DU Faculty

Andrew R. Goetz

Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment

Jennifer Greenfield

Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Graduate School of Social Work

Rafael Ioris

Professor, Department of History and Urban Studies

Seth Masket

Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Center on American Politics

Chiara Piovani

Associate Professor, Department of Economics

Lolita Tabron

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Ellen Winiarczyk

Academic Director and Teaching Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, College of Professional Studies

Benjamin Xie

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

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