Consulting Staff

Catie Kitrinos is a doctoral candidate in the UMass Comparative Primatology Lab. For her dissertation, she is studying the transmission of immune-relevant bacteria between wild bats, Kinda baboons, and their shared fruit food sources at Kasanka National Park in Zambia.

Dhiroj Koirala is a PhD candidate in Resource Economics. His research focuses on energy, environmental, and development economics.

Reyna Orellana is a Ph.D. student in the department of Sociology and finishing her MA in accounting at the Isenberg School of Management at UMASS Amherst. Her research focuses on student parents in higher academia.

Jessica Pearlman joined ISSR in September 2016 and serves as ISSR's Director of Research Methods Programs.

Grazielle Valentim is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology and a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research interests focus on immigration and labor rights, family, gender, and care work.