Anthony Carroll (MA ’80) will be joining Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in April as a senior fellow. Carroll has over 35 years of experience as a corporate lawyer and business advisor in the areas of international trade and investment, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Romina Soria (MIPA ’05) launched a monthly series of household income data to gauge the economic well-being of American households with the data science and economic consulting firm she co-founded, Motio Research. The new series is based on microdata from the Current Population Survey and follows the core methodology of a discontinued series that garnered widespread national media attention in the 2010s.
Lauren Benditt (MPA ’09) recently joined YouGov as senior vice president of research. She has worked in various leadership and analyst positions at the international market research and data analytics firm since 2016.
Emma Cleveland (MPA ’20) started a new position with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as an air policy analyst. She was previously a contractor to the DNR with the Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium.
Jose Martinez (MPA ’21) was featured in a Waisman Center story about a recently published study that shows that the triplication of the 21st chromosome, which causes Down syndrome, impacts brain development at its earliest stages. The story highlights research that Martinez conducted while in graduate school. Martinez received an MPA from the La Follette School in 2021 and went on to complete a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology in 2024. He recently joined The RAND Corporation as an associate physical scientist.
Dylan Helmenstine (MPA ’22) is running for the Black Earth Village Board. Helmenstine works as a health care rate analyst in the Bureau of Rate Setting, Division of Medicaid Services at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, where he conducts analysis and program improvement for the state’s Medicaid waiver program.
Tessa Reilly (MPA ’22) was promoted to senior consultant at Guidehouse, where she has worked since 2022. While completing her MPA, Reilly worked as a regional affordable housing innovation fellow for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. Prior to graduate school, Reilly received bachelor’s degrees in sociology and political science with an undergraduate certificate in public policy.
Rianna Mukherjee (certificate in public policy ’23) was accepted into the Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Thurgood Marshall Program. As part of the program, she will spend her summer as a law clerk with the Maryland State Department of Education. Mukherjee is a J.D. candidate at the University of Maryland Law School. In 2023, she completed a bachelor’s degree in political science along with certificates in public policy, Asian American studies, and educational policy studies from UW–Madison.