Alumni spotlight

Divya Ramesh is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing and Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Melvin Washington II serves as Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Planning at the Mellon Foundation.

Stephanie Sandoval-Pistorius is pursuing her PhD in neuroscience at Michigan Medicine, studying the molecular underpinnings of Parkinson’s disease. She will go on to UCSF for her postdoctoral training, where she will investigate pathological brain ac...

Beza Merid was a faculty affiliate with STPP when he became a research fellow in cardiology at Michigan Medicine. Now at Arizona State University, he appreciates how influencing innovation policy can create better health outcomes for underserved popu...

Aaron Kurz, Earth and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. and STPP Certificate '21, is an energy and environmental consultant.  Finding a job out of graduate studies is not an easy task. I spent almost 6 months over which I applied to 40+ positions, the...

Esha Mathew (PhD '15 - Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology) is a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation at the U.S. State Department. Previously she was a Science and Technology Fellow with the American Associatio...

Michelle Brechtelsbauer (MPP '16) interrupted her government service to obtain her Ford School Master of Public Policy and the Science, Technology, & Public Policy Graduate Certificate Program. Now in the private sector, at the Energy Impact Center, ...

Melvin Washington is an alumnus of the Ford School’s Master of Public Policy Program and the Science, Technology, & Public Policy Graduate Certificate Program. In his role as a Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice, he puts this passion ...