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Carrie Hammerman

Director of Strategic Partnerships
Carrie Hammerman joined the Youth Policy Lab in 2024 as its new Director of Strategic Partnerships. In this role, she seeks to increase YPL’s visibility and policy impact while ensuring funding sustainability to support ongoing research and project d...
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Megan Jagolinzer

Project Manager
Megan Jagolinzer is a project manager at the Youth Policy Lab. Her work focuses on school-based interventions to improve behavioral health and academic outcomes for youth. She has extensive experience collaborating with school staff to inform researc...
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Sophie Ordway

Policy Fellow - Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
Sophie is a Data & Policy Fellow for the Youth Policy Lab. She holds a MSW with a focus on Policy and Program Evaluation from the University of Michigan and a BA in English and Women’s Studies from Marist College. Prior to joining YPL, Sophie was a r...
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Sam Owusu

Policy Fellow, MiLEAP
Sam Owusu (He/Him) is a Data & Policy Fellow at the Youth Policy Lab. He is embedded in the Office of Early Childhood located within the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential (MiLEAP). Originally from Chicago, IL, Sam h...
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Dimitri Przeslawski

Policy Fellow, Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP)
Dimitri joined the Youth Policy Lab as a Data Policy Fellow in July 2024. He is embedded in the Office of Sixty by 30 (60x30) located within the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP), focused on advancing post...
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Policy Fellowship

Through the Policy Fellowship program, YPL works with partners to place early-career policy professionals in full time roles with state and local agencies in Michigan.  The Fellows provide technical assistance and strategic support to achieve specifi...
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In the News

Program to create housing options for the formerly incarcerated

Apr 11, 2025 The Spartan Newsroom
LANSING – “It was a one bedroom, moldy basement apartment,” said LaWanda Hollister, referring to one of the first places she rented when released after 34 years in prison. Hollister, now a Washtenaw County resident, is the coordinator of Nation Outsi...
LaWanda Hollister, coordinator for Nation Outside Women’s Chapter and volunteer organizer for the American Friends Service Committee. Credit: Courtesy photo
News

Ford School Fellow finds outlet in music

Mar 6, 2023
Downtown Ann Arbor’s thriving music scene attracts crowds of University of Michigan students to bars and music venues each weekend to see live bands perform. Some Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy students may be surprised to see a familiar face...
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State & Hill

Data for good: Expanding college opportunity in Michigan

Dec 19, 2022
When the state of Michigan issued its COVID-19 stay at home order in March 2020, Youth Policy Lab (YPL) Data and Policy Fellow Ava Attari found herself in the middle of an ambitious state program. The thousands of workers who had to remain on the job...
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Report

An Overview of Home Visiting Referrals in Michigan

December 20, 2024
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Dipita Das, Sara Elhasan
Michigan’s home-visiting programs aim to support families by promoting healthy pregnancies and providing caregivers with the tools, information, and resources needed to create a safe and nurturing environment for their child’s development. These prog...
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Fellowship Spotlight

Fellowship Spotlight: Supporting Michigan's 60 by 30 Efforts

February 28, 2021
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Avazeh Attari
In 2019, the University of Michigan’s Youth Policy Lab placed a Data & Policy Fellow with the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) to provide LEO leadership with technical assistance and strategic support in improving its state-run prog...
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Impact Evaluation of the Maternal Infant Health Program

August 2020
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Robin Tepper Jacob, Lauren Shaw, Sandra Tang, Zaiyi Jiang, Elizabeth Reosti
With support from a grant awarded by Arnold Ventures, YPL has partnered with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to conduct an impact evaluation of MIHP. Using a randomized encouragement design, outreach specialist will provide enhanced recruitment to a subset of individuals who are eligible for MIHP, with a goal of increasing participation in the program. YPL will leverage that increase in participation to evaluate the program’s impact on key maternal and infant health outcomes.
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