Senior Scientist
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, United States
.Dr. Tatjana Meschede, Associate Director of the Heller School’s Institute for Economic and Racial Equity at Brandeis University, is a locally and nationally known researcher on STEM education, housing and homelessness, and racial economic disparity. A skilled evaluation researcher, Dr. Meschede partners with local and national organization to bring together different stakeholder groups to improve programs and policies. She has successfully led the ten year FIRST® Longitudinal Study, collaborating with a range of stakeholders, and has presented and written widely on the impacts of after school STEM education with a specific focus on gender and race/ethnicity. She has also presented and written about racial wealth inequities, and was selected as Visiting Scholar at the Boston Federal Reserve Bank where she was analyzed local data on race and ethnic wealth holdings. More recently, she began a cross-national project on the impact of extreme wealth disparities in Germany and the US, partnering with colleagues at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Berlin’s Humboldt University.
Dr. Meschede’s work has been cited widely in the media, including the Wall Street Journal, WBUR, CNCB, CNN, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Die Zeit, and BBC.
Dr. Meschede serves on the faculty at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and has taught at the University of Massachusetts/Boston and Tufts University. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts/Boston.
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