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Stephanie M. Cronen

Stephanie Cronen is a managing researcher at AIR. Dr. Cronen’s work during the past 20+ years has focused largely on managing and conducting the technical work of large-scale research studies, including survey research, experimental studies, and mixed-methods studies in adult education, professional development, and workforce preparation. ...
Samia Amin

Samia Amin is a managing researcher and the director of Workforce Development at AIR. She is passionate about promoting evidence-based innovation in the public sector. Amin brings extensive domestic and international experience helping federal, state, and local governments and foundations to develop and refine programs. She leads implementation and experimental ...
Mary Kay Dugan

Mary Kay Dugan is a managing technical assistant consultant at AIR. She is passionate about identifying evidence-based promising practices and translating them into policies and effective programs focused on underserved populations including disadvantaged youth and young adults. Dugan has over 30 years of experience helping federal, state, and local governments ...
Michelle Yin

Michelle Lu Yin is a principal economist at AIR, where she focuses on labor economics. Dr. Yin has led a range of research studies using quasi-experimental designs in the areas of science of science policy, disability, and postsecondary education. Dr. Yin has a strong background in policy evaluation design, survey ...
Amanda Latimore

Amanda Latimore is a social epidemiologist and the Director of AIR's Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES). AIR CARES’s multidisciplinary team conducts research, delivers education and technical assistance, engages communities, and translates research into action with the goal of preventing addiction and addressing the needs of those ...
Ilene Harris

Ilene Harris (Zuckerman) is a vice president in the Health Division at AIR. With 40 years of research, clinical, analytic, and administrative experience as a chronic disease epidemiologist and pharmacist, her work focuses on drug policy, quality measures, and quality of care in older adults. She applies her clinical and ...
Harry J. Holzer

Harry J. Holzer is a senior research fellow and Institute Fellow at AIR and the John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University. He is also a senior affiliate at the Urban Institute, a senior affiliate of the National Poverty Center ...