Alumni
Emma Hart
Emma received her PhD from Teachers College in 2025 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston College. Her research examines when and how educational interventions produce short- and long-run effects. She approaches this work with an interest in better understanding the developmental processes through which early skills and contexts causally shape life course outcomes.
Xinyu Pan
Xinyu is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Bank Street College of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She trained in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, which has allowed her to conduct user-inspired research that yields practical applications for teaching and learning.
Current Students
Caroline Botvin
Caroline Botvin is a doctoral candidate in Developmental Psychology. Her research examines the short- and long-term effects of early childhood interventions, with a particular focus on how features of programs, children, and their environments shape the persistence of impacts over time.
Jessica Sperber
Jessica’s research program examines the effects of poverty and early life stress on developmental trajectories across the lifespan. She is particularly interested in the biological mechanisms which explain this process, such as epigenetic aging. Jessica is a F31 NIH Predoctoral fellow and will begin a Postdoctoral Scholar position at the Max Planck Institute in 2026.
Mindy Rosengarten
Mindy Rosengarten is a fourth year PhD student studying Developmental Psychology. Broadly, Mindy is interested in what features of educational interventions predict positive long-term outcomes on student achievement. Mindy’s current work examines whether features of the classroom environment can be used to forecast long-term student outcomes.
Tyler Watts 