Elizabeth Emery

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Elizabeth “Betsy” Emery completed her M.S. degree in the Forest Ecosystems and Society Program at Oregon State in 2020. Prior to joining the program, she helped establish the City of Flagstaff, Arizona’s Open Space Program, including working with stakeholder groups to acquire natural areas, develop management plans, establish natural resource policies, and implement infrastructure improvement projects. At OSU, Betsy’s research explored how people perceive risks and make decisions, with a specific focus on how people reason about the use of biotechnology to address forest health threats.

Ika Widiyasari

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Ika Widiyasari is a Master of Public Policy student at OSU. She received her Bachelor’s degree in economic statistics from the Institute of Statistics in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to coming to OSU, she worked in Indonesia’s Statistics Bureau for almost 7 years. This first-hand awareness of her home country’s impoverished social and economic conditions in remote areas prompted her to pursue a graduate degree in public policy with a focus on rural policy. She worked with Hilary on the community reactions to extreme weather project.

Hannah Brachfeld

Hannah Brachfeld

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Hannah is a master’s student in the Marine Resource Management Program at Oregon State University. She served in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer for almost nine years, deploying on two ships and earning the title of Nuclear Engineering Officer. She graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Loyola University of Chicago and has always held an appreciation for the scientific world. Her research focuses on Department of Defense and Coast Guard involvement in Offshore Wind and Marine Energy siting and policy, specifically offshore wind energy that was proposed off the coasts of Oregon and Virginia. She is passionate about clean energy as a solution to climate challenges and hopes to continue advocating for alternative energy sources well into the future.

Brittany Gaustad

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Brittany Gaustad graduated from OSU with a Master of Public Policy in 2015. She went on to become a research assistant at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Caroline State University. Her research interests include environmental and energy policy, conserving energy through everyday behavior, social movements and the impacts of globalized commodities on environmental quality. While at OSU, she conducted research on perceptions of public participation processes in the siting of liquefied natural gas facilities in Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon.

Muhammad Aatir Khan

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Muhammad Aatir Khan was born and raised in the coastal city of Karachi, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Social Sciences and Liberal Arts from IBA, majoring in Political Science. During his final year, he started a research internship at the School Education and Literacy Department, Government of Sindh, where he eventually joined as a Research and Development Coordinator after graduation. Working at the provincial education department has been the highlight of his career since it enabled him to better understand the issue of literacy and education in more nuanced ways. While it was overwhelming and frustrating to deal with the numerous issues related to bureaucracy, corruption, and poverty, it was also an amazing learning opportunity. Having developed a deep interest in education policy, he decided to pursue a master’s degree from SZABIST, where his research was focused on education in Sindh. He completed his PhD in Public Policy at Oregon State University under the Fulbright Foreign Student Program in 2022. His dissertation focused on educational reforms in Sindh, particularly looking at how policy priorities are set; how interventions are planned and implemented in the field; and how various stakeholders, primarily local and international developing partners, impact the entire process.

Johanna Cervantes

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Johanna was born in Colombia. She studied sociology and earned a master’s degree in social studies of science at the National University of Colombia. She worked as a researcher with different public and private universities and institutions. Her last job was with the National and District Planning Departments as a part of the Office of Public Policy Evaluations. She is mostly interested in social and gender policy evaluation with an emphasis on mixed methods. In my spare time, I like to watch movies and series, do yoga and swimming, and talk with friends and family. She is working with Hilary on an analysis of public perceptions of wave energy on the U.S. West Coast.

Hilary Boudet

Hilary Boudet – obsolete

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