Doctoral students who graduate from Friedman pursue a mixed variety of career paths. Explore the roles that a few of our most recent doctoral alumni have taken on since completing their studies at Friedman.
2025
Breanne Wilhite; Research Associate II, Eight Sleep
Leah Costlow; Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
2024
Aishwarya Venkat; Research Fellow, Project Drawdown
Ana Gabriela Maafs Rodríguez; Postdoctoral Scholar, The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Elena Martinez; Senior Research and Evaluation Manager, Food Insight Group
Jessica Wallingford; Program Officer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada
2023
Emily Diemer, PhD, RD, LD, CNSC, CLC; Director of Nutritional Medicine, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Ghaida Aloraini, PhD; Researcher, Public Health Authority of Saudi Arabia
Keith Lividini; Independent Consultant, Washington D.C.
Mengxi Du, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Reece Lyerly, PhD, MPH; Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, Chef Ann Foundation
Thanit Vinitchagoon; Faculty Lecturer; Mahidol University
Violeta Chacón; Postdoctral Research Associate, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
2022
Alexandra L. Stern; US Land and Agricultural Lead, Quantis
Bianca Curi Braga; Research Scientist, Quadram Institute
Danielle Cahoon; Research Scientist of Molecular Biomarkers, Board Institute of MIT and Harvard
Katherine M. Rancaño; Associate Policy Researcher, RAND
Michael Daniels; Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Ryan Simpson; Associate, Analysis Group
Silver Rachel; Research Scientist, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
2021
Gloria Guevara; Sr. Clinical Research Project Manager, Northwestern University
Kate Schneider Lecy; Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Sara John; Deputy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Winnie Bell; Senior Technical Advisor, FHI 360
2020
Reem Alsukait; Health specialist, The World Bank
Yan Bai; Economist, Development Data Group, The World Bank
2019
Mehreen Ismail; Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau
