People NIEER Staff Sabin Amanullah Accounting Specialist samanullah@nieer.org W. Steven Barnett Senior Co-Director, Founder sbarnett@nieer.org Brandi Blackshear Research Project Coordinator II bblackshear@nieer.org Carol Contreras Program Coordinator ccontreras@nieer.org Lori Connors-Tadros Senior Research Fellow ltadros@nieer.org Jennifer Duer Assistant Research Professor, NIEER jduer@nieer.org Carmen Espinosa Research Project Coordinator cespinosa@nieer.org Alexandra Figueras-Daniel Research Assistant Professor and Bilingual ECE Senior Policy Specialist afiguerasdaniel@nieer.org Ellen Frede Senior Co-Director efrede@nieer.org Allison Friedman-Krauss Assistant Research Professor afriedman-krauss@nieer.org Beth Ann Gardiner Early Childhood Education Technical Assistance Specialist bgardiner@nieer.org Karin Garver Early Childhood Education Policy Specialist kgarver@nieer.org Erin Harmeyer Assistant Research Professor eharmeyer@nieer.org Kate Hodges Policy Research Project Coordinator khodges@nieer.org Tracy Merriman Jost Early Childhood Education Policy Specialist tjost@nieer.org Kwanghee Jung Associate Director for Data Management and Statistics kjung@nieer.org Zijia Li Assistant Research Professor zijiali@nieer.org Julie MacLeod Research Project Coordinator jmacleod@nieer.org Milagros Nores Co-Director for Research mnores@nieer.org Claritza Pena Assistant Research Project Coordinator cpena@nieer.org GG Weisenfeld Senior ECE Policy Specialist gweisenfeld@nieer.org Valerie Werstler Associate Director vwerstler@nieer.org Charles Whitman Research Project Coordinator cwhitman@nieer.org Research Fellows Barbara Bowman Distinguished Research Fellow bbowman@erikson.edu Stephanie M. Curenton Senior Research Fellow curenton@rci.rutgers.edu Cynthia Esposito Lamy Senior Research Fellow lamy@robinhood.org Jason Hustedt Senior Research Fellow jhustedt@udel.edu Sharon Ryan Senior Research Fellow sr247@rci.rutgers.edu Jim Squires Senior Research Fellow jsquires@nieer.org
