Students

Chelsea Waddell

Policy Analyst
Chelsea is a research assistant working for CLOSUP on the Michigan Public Policy Survey about attitudes toward criminal justice reform. She is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and has a B.S. in…
Policy Reports

Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) Memo #2 — Final Analysis of Public Comments on 2024 Remediated Senate Maps in Southeast Michigan

August 21, 2024
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Tom Ivacko, Elizabeth Gelman, Danielle Hamer, Edward Plaut, University of Michigan
This brief provides a review of CLOSUP analysis of public comments submitted to the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) in spring 2024 as part of the effort to draw new maps in Southeast Michigan as directed by a federal...
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Sarrah Ahmed

Policy Analyst
Sarrah Ahmed is a Policy Analyst working on the Fiscal Health project to create a tool for converting financial data into tagged XBRL format. She is set to graduate with a bachelor’s in information science and a minor in Public Policy in the Fall of…
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Marc Metz

Policy Analyst
Marc is a Research Assistant working on CLOSUP’s latest iteration of the Michigan Public Policy Survey focused on criminal justice. He is an undergraduate in the Ford School class of 2025 majoring in Public Policy. Marc is interested in local…
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Ingrid Hofmann

Policy Analyst
Ingrid is a research assistant working on the results of the summer 2024 MPSS survey. She is an undergraduate studying political science and Spanish. Ingrid is interested in the intersection of law and policy and hopes to attend law school after…
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Johanna Walker

Policy Analyst
Jo is a Policy Analyst working to report data from CLOSUP's 2023 Michigan Public Policy Survey. She is a Masters student at the School for Environment and Sustainability (class of 2025), and has a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of…