Raised in Minneapolis, Noah has spent the majority of his career in public service working to end mass incarceration and reduce the harm caused by the criminal legal system. After completing his B.A. in Economics at Reed College, Noah monitored markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before making the leap to criminal legal reform. He first worked at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law on a multi-year research project seeking to learn the fiscal impact of criminal justice fines and fees. He then spent several years at the Crime and Justice Institute, working on policy implementation at the state and local level with a focus on pretrial reform and performance measurement. In his free time, he walks his big dog around Red Hook, Brooklyn, and watches professional wrestling.

Nadia is coming to Princeton SPIA from Indonesia. Previously, she worked at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she worked on an urban transportation operational improvement project in Jakarta and a randomized evaluation on the performance improvement of tax offices in Indonesia. Nadia’s 1.5-hour bus commute in Jakarta served as her daily lesson on how cities work—or sometimes, how they don’t. Combined with her prior educational and professional journey, this experience sparked her interest in learning how data and invaluable local context can drive progress in urban policymaking, particularly in the areas of urban mobility and climate adaptation. In her free time, she enjoys scenic walks or easy hikes, playing squash, and trying out good food.

Sophie grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and the southwest of France. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2019 with a B.A. in political economy and a minor in city planning. She has worked in public sector strategy consulting and state and local transportation planning and service design. She is also a tenant organizer, with experience organizing tenant associations, eviction defenses, requisition demands, and rent strikes in both the U.S. and France. This past summer, Sophie worked as a graduate intern at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. She is hoping to pursue a career in comparative research in Europe and the U.S. with a focus on housing financialization, land-use, social housing, and migrant resettlement.

Jonathan is an experienced Canadian-American political campaigner and policy practitioner. His roles in progressive campaigns have taken him across Canada, from British Columbia to Newfoundland, as a campaign manager, political data analyst, and central campaign strategist. He has also worked in Texas, helping a large women's health organization advocate for their preferred gubernatorial candidate. In 2015, he transitioned from campaign work to government work, first as a writer for the Prime Minister of Canada and later as a senior advisor for the Canadian Defence Minister. In his most recent role, he led a large team working directly with the Minister to shape a more inclusive and effective military that put Canadians' safety as a top priority. This experience allowed him to contribute to the military's well-being, allowing him to travel across Canada and craft positive policy outcomes, including in his areas of interest, such as the Canadian Arctic, Afghanistan, and inclusivity initiatives. His nonvocational passion is travel. In 2022, he took time out of the workforce to fulfill a lifelong dream of long-term travel. Since then, he has been around the world - from Kyrgyzstan to Egypt to Paraguay - building relationships and language skills that will serve him for a lifetime. His ultimate goal is to see every UNESCO World Heritage Site. This summer, he returned to Canada to complete his MPA internship working as an AI Governance Fellow at the Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute in Montreal.

Katie is a joint MPA/J.D. student at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School. She was born and raised in Bellevue, Washington, and studied psychology at Duke University. She was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant at a rural teachers’ college in Ixtapan de la Sal, Mexico. After returning from Mexico, Katie helped manage ten in-house pro bono legal clinics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She interpreted and translated for 80 Spanish-speaking clients, organized the CARES Act Eviction Information Line to help undocumented tenants, and helped establish the Adult Parole Project. She later served as the community education coordinator for the Farmworker Unit at Legal Aid of North Carolina, where she coordinated know-your-rights trainings for migrant, seasonal, and H-2A farmworkers. In that role, she developed outreach strategies to reach prospective clients with limited literacy, with limited digital literacy, and who speak Indigenous languages. Outside of work, she volunteered with Al Otro Lado, Respond Crisis Translation, and the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Katie was the 2020–2021 recipient of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation at Queen’s University Belfast. There, she researched the intersection of immigration law and technology, the role of women in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, and the treatment of speakers of Indigenous languages at the U.S.-Mexico border. Katie is interested in policy approaches to increasing access to justice. She speaks fluent Spanish, intermediate French, and basic Maya Mam. In her free time, she enjoys playing board games, reading investigative reporting, and singing in her church choir.