Dear Pardee RAND Community,

As our academic year comes to an end, I’m proud to celebrate the 18 students who defended their dissertations over the past year. We are excited to mark this important milestone and look forward to honoring them at our biennial Commencement weekend next June.

Pardee RAND alumni carry forward a passion to help improve policy and decisionmaking with diverse and effective tools and solutions. Please join me in congratulating them all!

Wishing everyone a wonderful summer,

Nancy Staudt

Frank and Marcia Carlucci Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Vice President, Innovation, RAND Corporation

Michele Abbott Stabilizing the Household: Improving Resilience Across the Social Determinants of Health Senior Research Associate MEF Associates

Alejandro Becerra-Ornelas Financial Mechanisms in a Disaster Aftermath: The Mexican Case Research Economist Banco de México

Harun Dogo Sustaining Global Leadership Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Sustainable Investment The TCW Group

Katie Feistel The Role of a State Public Health Initiative in Shaping Provider Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Cytomegalovirus Prevention Program Senior Engineer The Aerospace Corporation

Max Griswold An Evaluation of Crime-Free Housing Policies Postdoctoral Fellow RAND

Kyle Haak A Proposed Decision Framework for DoD Investment in Nuclear Energy Technology Pilot Trainee Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Program, U.S. Air Force

Marissa Herron The Development of In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing Technology: Drivers, Challenges, and Policy Implications Program Executive Science Mission Directorate, NASA

Dung Huynh Facing the Ravenous Sea Dragon: How Weaker Nations Confront Chinese Coercion in the South China Sea Lead Faculty for Public Policy YSEALI Academy, Fulbright University Vietnam

Lisa Jonsson Impacts of Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Commercialization at the Local Level on Juvenile Arrests Principal Underscore Research

Moon Kim Coherence to Choices: Informing Decisions on Public-Private Partnerships in the Space Sector Operations Research Analyst Strategic Investments Division, NASA

Karen Lee Comics as Policy Communication: An Exploratory Analysis Senior Consultant Lumina Decision Science

Pedro Nascimento de Lima Robust Decision Making in Health Policy: Applications to COVID-19 and Colorectal Cancer Associate Engineer RAND

Tim McDonald Beginning with System Transformation in Mind: Toward a Theory of Policy Leadership for Systemic Challenges Visiting Researcher Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School Postdoctoral Fellow, RAND

Diana Myers Thinking About the Unthinkable: Examining North Korea's Military Threat to China Intelligence Officer U.S. Air Force

Claudia Rodriguez The Impact of a Summer Program on the Development of Historically Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Postdoctoral Fellow RAND

Jamie Ryan Unintended Consequences? Medicaid Drop-Out in Families with Mixed Immigration Status Postdoctoral Fellow RAND

Tal Wolfson Three Essays on the Effects of Child Care Subsidy on Maternal Labor Supply in Israel Senior Economist Compass Lexecon

Keren Zhu Assessing the Impact of Belt and Road Initiative Infrastructure Megaprojects: Framework Development and Case Study Global China Postdoctoral Research Fellow Global Development Policy Center, Boston University