Team directory: B

Kate Baldwin, Associate Professor of Political Science

Kate Baldwin is the Peter Strauss Family assistant professor of political science. She studies the political economy of developing countries, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Her current research projects analyze politics in weak states. In these contexts, she is interested in how community-level institutions – such as traditional leaders and NGOs – interact with the national state to affect development, democracy and conflict.

Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale.

Steven Berry, Professor of Economics and Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy

Steven Berry is the David Swensen Professor of Economics and the inaugural Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, specializing in the empirical analysis of markets in equilibrium. Berry is a winner of the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society and is an elected fellow of that society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebekah Boitey, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025

Rebekah Boitey is a sophomore at Yale majoring in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration with a certificate in Data Science. She is passionate about creating informed and equitable social policies, with her primary areas of interest being criminal justice reform and affordable housing policy. On campus, she serves as a board member for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, is a research assistant with the Yale Housing and Health Equity Lab, does housing research with the Yale Policy Institute, and volunteers with the Community Healthcare Van.

Ron Borzekowski, Executive Director, Yale's Data-Intensive Social Science Center

Ron Borzekowski is the inaugural executive director of Yale’s Data-Intensive Social Science Center and the senior research scholar in the Economics Department and at the Institution for Social and Political Studies. Prior to Yale, Borzekowski was a director of economics at Amazon Web Services. During his time in public service, Borzekowski helped build and then lead the Office of Research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Susan Busch, Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)

Professor Busch is a Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and former chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Professor Busch’s research examines the effects of policies and regulations on health care cost and quality. Most of her work focuses on behavioral health. Professor Busch’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, an S.M.