Group Members

Elizabeth Hoffecker
Research Scientist and Group Lead
Elizabeth leads the Local Innovation group and serves as PI on the group’s portfolio of research projects …read more

Elias Damtew Assefa
Postdoctoral Associate
Elias is developing evaluation tools to assess changes in local innovation capacity at the individual, group, and local system levels…read more

Romita Mitra
Evaluation Research Associate
Romita is managing a complexity-aware evaluation of agricultural innovation initiatives in Bihar, India and supporting evaluation and adaptive management on the ASPIRE project…read more

Eunhae Lee
Graduate Research Assistant
Eunhae is supporting research on examples of inclusive systems innovation and the analysis of local innovation ecosystems…read more

Ahalya Ramgopal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ahalya is supporting the development and dissemination of case studies focused on successful examples of local innovation…read more

Shantha Venugopal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Shantha is conducting background research to support the Adaptive Learning and Systems Analysis of JSPVAT project in Bihar, India… read more

Francisco Ramos
Research Affiliate
Francisco is contributing to the analysis of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems as part of the ASPIRE project.…read more
Group Alumni
Graduate students
Nah-yoon Shin
Asresh Guttikonda
Allegra Fonda-Bonardi
Lily Steponaitis
Qianqian Zhang
Sara Hess
Undergraduate students
Meereen Jatoi
Jamil Dellawar
Jenny Chan
Josh Talbot
Brandon Benson
Jesse Press-Williams
Grace Connors
Julia Rue
Visiting Students
Arianna Togelang
Juan David Reina Rozo
Florencia Gay