Catria Gadwah-Meaden is a Research Assistant at the Hope Center and a second-year Policy Analysis Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. When she’s not working with the Hope Center, Catria supports RAND projects in Social & Economic Well-Being, Health, and Education & Labor as an assistant policy researcher. Her research interests center on the social determinants of health, basic needs security, and safety net programs, as well as their implications for opportunity and achievement. Catria holds a B.A. in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University.
Catria’s hope: that we will help make opportunities more accessible by doing research that investigates disparity, barriers, and programs that reduce them.