Meetings

If you are a student at NYU or Harvard, you can schedule time to meet with me through Calendly.

• MA students may only block one office-hour slot.

• PhD students may block up to two consecutive office-hour slots.

If you need me to review any material beforehand, please send it at least 24 hours before our meeting by email.

Reference letters

Eligibility

Any student who does well on one of my courses may request a reference letter for graduate studies or employment via e-mail.

Materials

Students requesting a reference letter should provide me with:

• A spreadsheet of all graduate programs/jobs for which the letter is sought

  • For graduate programs, please include the name of the university, the name of the school/department, the name of the program/degree, and the application deadline.

  • For jobs, please include the name of the organization, the name of the sub-division/department, the name of the position, and the application deadline.

• The personal statements (if applying for graduate studies) or letters of interest (if applying to employment) to be submitted;

• An up-to-date curriculum vitae; and

• Instructions on how to submit the reference letter for each graduate program/job.

For graduate programs, students should submit all of the above after having the application systems email me their requests for letters.

Timeline

Students requesting a reference letter should submit such materials at least two weeks prior to the deadline. Requests that do not meet this deadline may not be honored, except for extraordinary circumstances.

Doctoral students

Primary advisees

Verónica Mesalles | Doctoral student, Psychology and Social Intervention, New York University

Secondary or co-advisees

Sorana Acris | Doctoral student, International Education, New York University

Berta Bartoli | Doctoral student, Psychology and Social Intervention, New York University

Arja Dayal | Doctoral student, International Education, New York University

Trenel Francis-Porter | Doctoral student, Psychology and Social Intervention, New York University

Jessica Siegel | Doctoral student, Psychology and Social Intervention, New York University

Former advisees

Sharnic Djaker | Post-doctoral Fellow, What Works Hub for Global Education - Oxford University

Samuel Hansen Freel | Senior Research Director, A—B

Amrita Mitchell-Krishnan | Post-doctoral Fellow, Children's Health of Orange County (CHOC) Children's Hospital

Zezhen (Michael) Wu | Behavioral Scientist, The Agency Fund

Former informal mentees

Andreas de Barros | Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Evaluation - UC Irvine

Maya Escueta | Post-doctoral Associate, Center for Child and Family Policy - Duke University

Saloni Gupta | Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford King Center on Global Development - Stanford University / Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Education, Brown University

Former research managers

Tanay Balantrapu | Consultant, World Bank

Rashmi Bhat | Project Manager, J-PAL South Asia

Urmi Bhattacharya | Country Director, Fortify Health

Nicolás Buchbinder | Global Education Monitoring Report Fellow, UNESCO

Krishanu Chakraborty | Manager, ID Insight

María Cortelezzi | National Director of Educational Assessment, Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of Argentina

Nandini Gupta | Research and Training Manager, J-PAL South Asia

Putul Gupta | Senior Research Manager, J-PAL South Asia

Former research associates

Aditi Bhomwick | Candidate in Master of Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs - Princeton University

Iti Bhargava | Candidate in Master of International and Development Economics, Yale University

Shobitha Cherian | Research Associate, J-PAL South Asia

Smit Gade | Data and Research Manager, Good Business Lab

Roshni Khincha | Consultant, World Bank

Rashmi Menon | Candidate in Master of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University

Sivaranjani Sivamohan | Program Manager, Central Square Foundation

Anuja Venkatachalam | Data Journalist, DataLEADS

Former research consultants

Riddhima Mishra | Candidate in Master of Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy - University of Chicago

Mustufa Patel | Research Consultant, J-PAL South Asia

Krishna Srinivasan | Pre-doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics - Harvard University