Charles M. Payne
Director
Charles M. Payne directs the Cornwall Center and is the Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies. His interests include urban education and school reform, social inequality, social change and...
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Charity Anderson
Senior Research Associate
Charity Anderson is a Senior Research Associate at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and Academic Director of the Clemente Veterans’ Initiative Newark, a humanities course focused on...
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Marcus Anthony
Senior Program Director
Marcus hails from Columbus, Ohio. He received a BA in Political Science from Miami University, earned a MA in Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy from Seton Hall University, and a...
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Meril Antony
Postdoctoral Associate
Meril Antony is a post-doctoral scholar with the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, Rutgers University-Newark. Her interests lie at the intersection of urban education policy, public management, social equity, and...
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Nakeefa Bernard Garay
Senior Program Director
Nakeefa Bernard Garay has over eight years of experience in New Jersey’s nonprofit community development industry. Prior to working at Rutgers Newark, she served as a Program Officer at Local...
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Vandeen Campbell
Assistant Research Professor and Senior Quantitative Director
Vandeen Campbell is an Assistant Research Professor and Senior Quantitative Director at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University –...
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Claudia M. Castillo-Lavergne
Postdoctoral Associate
Claudia M. Castillo-Lavergne is a Ph.D. Candidate studying Human Development and Social Policy with the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Her research examines the developmental and...
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Shanequa Evans
Program Coordinator
Shanequa Evans serves as the Program Coordinator of the Promise Youth University Afterschool program. Prior to joining the Cornwall Center, she served as Assistant Director of the Complete for –...
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Marquise Guzman
Senior Program Director
Marquise Guzman serves as the Associate Director of Neighborhood Partnerships for the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies. Prior to joining the Cornwall Center, Marquise served several different capacities...
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Alyssa B. King
Business Assistant
Alyssa B. King has worked on the Rutgers University-Newark since November 2015. She began as a Clerical Assistant and was promoted to her current position as Business Assistant of the Joseph C. Cornwall...
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Joshua Musicant
Graduate Assistant
Josh’s research interests center on questions of modernity and postmodernity, namely the changing human social experiences of these epochs. His work is theoretically focused and borrows on the modern theories...
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Marie-Jeanne Ndimbira-Rosner
Graduate Assistant
Mrs. Ndimbira-Rosner is a Ph.D. candidate from Windhoek, Namibia. Prior to her doctoral studies she co-founded the Physically Active Youth Programme (PAY), a holistic after-school program in Windhoek. She led...
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Arturo E. Osorio
Senior Researcher
Arturo E. Osorio is an Associate Professor of Practice – Entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School. His work focuses on entrepreneurial activities’ (un)intended impact on local socio-economic processes. In concrete, he...
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Kimaada Sills
Associate Director
Kimaada Sills is an Associate Director at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies. Ms. Sills has been with the Center since 2012 and has years of experience working...
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Ahmad Watson
Program Coordinator
Ahmad received his BA in Information Systems from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing an MBA in Analytics and Information Technology at Rutgers University. Ahmad has worked in Newark Public...
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Irene Welch
Administrative Assistant
Irene Welch is the Administrative Assistant for the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, Rutgers University-Newark. As the administrative assistant, she is a major part of the Cornwall Center’s...
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