Graduate Students

As a kid, Brittany Whitehead was influenced by her grandparents, who lived through the Great Depression. At just 16-years-old, her grandfather dropped out of school to join the military, and her grandmother, who went to Brown University, was the financial…

Luke Huber, a second-year doctoral student, is focusing his research on improving early childhood prevention and intervention programming through data-driven decision making. He hopes to someday have a career that helps to improve services provided to families with young children.

Maria Alcívar Zúñiga knows what it’s like to live undocumented in the U.S., so she is utilizing her education and research to positively impact immigrant families.