NaLette Brodnax, Ph.D.

nmbrodnax@gmail.com


Assistant Professor

Georgetown University

Year of PhD: 2017

Country: United States (District of Columbia)

About Me:

I am an Assistant Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.  I received a joint Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. My research interests include education policy, policy diffusion, and computational social science. I specialize in data science, randomized experiments, cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, and econometrics.  In the private sector, I have worked with a range of companies and organizations including Eli Lilly, Nokia, and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Research Interests

Public Policy

Research Methods & Research Design

State and Local Politics

Data Science

Machine Learning

Education Policy

Countries of Interest

United States

Media Appearances:

Newspaper Quotes:

(2020) Washington Post

Georgetown University works with D.C. agency to improve rental inspection policies

(2020) WAMU (NPR's DC Affiliate)

How Georgetown Grad Students Are Helping D.C. Conduct Better Housing Inspections