Students
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Freeman, Misty
Originally from the San Joaquin Valley of California, I came to Oregon State University in 2010 for the Master of Public Policy. My area of focus was social policy, and I also completed a Minor in Rural Studies. My final research project for the MPP was an exploration of how social services might be more effectively tailored to the needs of tribal children and families in Klamath County, Oregon. After finishing my Master’s in 2012, I chose to stay on at OSU as a PhD student in Public Policy. I plan to delve more deeply into issues of poverty and inequality, the social safety net, and how we, as a society, take care of our most vulnerable populations, especially children. An important component of this study is exploring how we define concepts like poverty, how we set goals for social policy, and how we evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs. I have a number of other research interests as well, such as socially sustainable natural resource use, generational diversity issues, and residential racial segregation, to name a few. |
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Pant, Suman
I completed my MPP at Oregon State in 2012, and for my research I looked at the impact of ecotourism on the development (sanitation and access to drinking water) of local communities in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. Before coming to the US, I worked as a development officer in a non-profit for disadvantaged children in Nepal. As a doctoral student in Public policy program, I am interested in community based natural resource management in developing countries, local empowerment and development through sustainable use of natural resources, and institutions (historical and existing) that facilitate engagement between local communities and policies.
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Parker, Ashley
I am originally from Central California where I received my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from CSU Stanislaus before coming to OSU. I earned my Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree in 2011 with a concentration of social policy, particularly the theoretical predictions of various policies and homelessness with regards to what happens to persons after they experience a foreclosure. I am in the first year of the PhD program and hope to collect data to substantiate the theoretical work completed in my MPP essay.
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