Alicia Barrett Outreach
Alicia Barrett is an intern for the National EITC Outreach Campaign. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of California Irvine. Previously she served as an intern for Congresswoman Karen Bass and volunteered with the San Bernardino NAACP Branch. She is interested in policy analysis to explore the impact of race, class, and gender.
Jacob Bathanti
International Budget Partnership Jacob Bathanti is an intern with the International Budget Partnership. A North Carolina native, he received a B.A. from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Georgetown. His academic interests include the intersections of corruption, clientelism, and organized violence; this occasionally comes in handy when thinking about public finance.
Santiago Calderon International Budget Partnership
Santiago Delgado Calderon is currently an intern with the International Budget Partnership. He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Cornell University and a BSc in Business Studies from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His interests include aid effectiveness, international economics, governance, and public finance in developing and emerging countries. Previously he conducted research on public private partnerships in Indonesia and became engaged with different economic development initiatives in a variety of countries.
Adrian Carroll International Budget Partnership
Adrian Carroll is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he studied international development. He holds a BA in Spanish and English from University of Mary Washington. In between undergraduate and graduate studies he spent five years working as a caseworker with a non-profit social services agency that served Latino immigrants in the DC Metro region. He also worked as a paralegal for two years in the Latino division of a worker’s compensation firm in Alexandria, Virginia. Last spring, Adrian interned as a Research Associate with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Washington think tank that focuses on Latin American politics and current events. Last summer he interned as a Junior Loan Officer at Prisma Microfinance in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Aneeka Chaudhry Health Aneeka is a graduate student at the George Washington University, pursuing a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy. She holds a B.A. in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University, and spent seven years as a biomedical researcher before making the switch to policy. She has worked at the NIH Clinical Center and interned at the Alzheimer’s Association. Her professional interests include health systems reform and health services research focusing on disparities and disenfranchised populations.
Halley Cloud Media Halley Cloud joined the media team at the Center in August, 2012. She is from Petaluma, California, and holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of California in San Diego. Before joining the Center, she was working in New York at Maximum Films & Management, a book-to-film literary scouting company.
Sebastian Devlin-Foltz Development Sebastian Devlin-Foltz is the intern for the Development division. He graduated from Occidental College in 2012 with a double major in Economics and Diplomacy and World Affairs. A Maryland native, he hopes to stay in the Washington area and work on issues of public policy and economics.
Seth Green Welfare and Income Support Seth Green is an intern in the TANF department. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2010. He has worked with City Year, an Americorps program, as a teacher’s aide in an Anacostia Kindergarten, and as an English teacher in rural Thailand with Princeton in Asia.
Rebecca Hammer International Budget Partnership Becca Hammer is an intern for the International Budget Partnership. In Spring 2011 she completed a double degree in Economics and Finance, with a minor in Chinese, from the University of Maryland, College Park. She recently returned to the US after spending eight months intensively studying Chinese at Hamilton College’s Associated Colleges in China program on a Boren Scholarship.
Ingrid Johnson State Fiscal Project Ingrid Johnson is currently an intern with the State Fiscal Project. She is a graduate of Smith College, where she majored in the Study of Women and Gender, and recently completed a Master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in Comparative Public Policy. She has previously interned in the Scottish Parliament in the office of MSP Margaret Curran.
William Kimball State Fiscal Project Will Kimball is an intern for the State Fiscal Policy division. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with honors, double-majoring in Economics and Political Science along with a minor in Spanish. Prior to working at the Center, Will interned at the Connecticut State Legislature and at the Social Entrepreneur Corps, a social development organization in Guatemala. Will is interested in using applied econometrics to inform legislation on public finance as well as environmental and financial regulation.
Adam LaRose
Federal Legislative Affairs Adam LaRose is an intern with the Federal Budget Initiative and Legislative Affairs divisions. He recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, and a minor in International Relations. LaRose is a member of the honor societies Phi Theta Kappa, Golden Key, Garnet & Gold Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Sigma Alpha. Adam completed an undergraduate research thesis on state ballot initiatives banning same-sex marriage. He also interned with U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and later with Tallahassee City Commissioner, Andrew Gillum. Adam’s main career aspiration is to become an elected official at the federal level. He has a passion for progressive tax structures, social policy, and legislation affecting low-income individuals. He is currently studying for the LSAT and plans on attending a top-ten law school next fall.
Jeremy Levy
Housing
Jeremy is an intern for the Housing team at CBPP, working on the impact of Federal housing policy on low-income families. He graduated from the University of Michigan in the spring with a BA from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. This summer he interned for the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress.
Lucy Liu
Federal Legislative Affairs
Lucy Liu is an intern for the Federal Legislative Affairs and the Federal Budget Initiative departments. She’s currently in her last year at U.C. Berkeley, studying Political Science and Public Policy. She is interning with CBPP to learn more about the legislative process and the workings of policy making. Although she is excited to work on a number of issues, she has a particular interest in affordable housing programs. She has done campaign work in the past and last interned for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Nigel McClung Federal Fiscal Policy Nigel is an intern with the Federal Budget Team. He recently attended Gonzaga University where he acquired a bachelor’s degree in economics and history. He is very interested in working for organizations such as the Center that focus on fiscal policy and the corresponding currents in academic and political thought.
Sean Miskell Health
Sean is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science department at Syracuse University, where his subfields of focus are Public Policy/Public Administration and International Relations. Sean’s dissertation project draws on theories of the policy process to study the politics of information disclosure and performance measurement in education, environmental, and health policy. In addition, he is also working on a project studying energy subsidy policy in the United States. Sean has taught a course entitled “Oil, Water, and War” at Syracuse University as well as “International Politics” at Le Moyne College, and also designs online courseware for the Saylor Foundation. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Sean earned a Masters degree in Public Administration from Cornell University, where his concentration was Human Rights and Social Justice and his thesis was based on three county-level sustainable economic development projects in New York that he designed while working with Cornell Cooperative Extension and Cornell’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. Sean earned his BA in History and Adolescent Education from Le Moyne College.
Catlin Nchako Nutrition Assistance
Catlin Nchako is an intern with the Food Assistance Division. He is currently a Masters of Public Policy candidate at Georgetown University, with an interest in poverty and policies affecting low-income families. Prior to graduate school, he worked for several years as a labor researcher for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which organizes grocery store and meatpacking plant workers. Catlin has lived in DC for a decade, and spent much of his childhood in Cameroon, West Africa.
Rebecca Ordieres
International Budget Partnership
Rebecca is an intern with the International Budget Partnership's Open Budget Initiative. She recently earned a Master of Science in International Comparative Social Policy Analysis from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In her dissertation she studied whether clusters of European member countries, sharing common stances in the way they incorporate their immigrant populations into their national system, had similar achievement gaps between native and immigrant students. Rebecca is a native Floridian and she completed a Bachelor in International Relations with a minor in Geography at Florida International University. She has lived as well as traveled abroad on many occasions due to her Spaniard-Colombian background, and speaks fluent Spanish and basic French.
Karina Tchrian Federal Fiscal Policy
Karina Tchrian is an intern with the Federal Fiscal Policy division. Karina is an Argentine lawyer and graduated from New York University School of Law’s Graduate Tax Program this past May. Prior to enrolling at NYU, she worked as a legal advisor to a national representative in Argentina’s National Congress. Karina’s responsibilities included drafting and reviewed bills, legal opinions and speeches on issues such as constitutional law, access to public information, the national budget, tax law, and social security law. In addition, Karina litigated public interest cases before courts. She also worked as an Associate Researcher for the International Center for Transitional Justice. Karina hopes to continue working for the improvement of tax legislation and become an expert in the field of tax policy.
Cynthia Ugwuibe International Budget Partnership Cynthia is an intern with the International Budget Partnership. She holds a BA in public policy from Duke University and an MA in African Studies from UCLA. Her master’s thesis is a policy analysis of Nigeria’s governance of its previous sovereign wealth fund (SWF), a government investment fund established to help the country effectively invest, spend, and save its oil revenues on behalf of its citizens. Cynthia has interned with the TransAfrica Forum in Washington D.C. and the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria.
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