People
The Urban Policy Lab is made up of faculty and students at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Gabriel Eidelman
Founder and Director
Gabriel Eidelman is founder and director of the Urban Policy Lab, and associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he teaches classes on urban governance and public policy. His research focuses on cities and urban governance in North America, and has been published in the journals Cities, Urban Affairs Review, and the Journal of Urban Affairs. For more information, visit his personal website here .
Graduate Fellows
Members of our student leadership team, comprised of second-year Master of Public Policy and Master of Global Affairs students, contribute to our research and civic education projects, participate in unique experiential learning opportunities, and coordinate the Lab’s extracurricular programming.
Past Fellows
Breanne Bateman (MPP ’19)
Rebecca Hellam (MPP ’19)
Sam Jerez (MPP ’19)
Matthew Plouffe (MPP ’19)
Aidan Carroll (MPP ’20)
Joshua Cho (MPP ’20)
Jolene Funk (MPP ’20)
Stephanie Bertolo (MPP ’21)
Madison Leisk (MPP ’21)
Sara Szot (MPP ’21)
Heba Al-Junaidi (MGA ’22)
Sean McGowan (MPP ’22)
Erin Mierdel (MPP ’22)
Joanne Banh (MPP ’23)
Brittany Barwise (MGA ’23)
Luca Donnetta (MPP ’23)
Alexander Carter (MPP ’25)
Tasha Romeyn (MPP ’25)
Jacob VanHelder (MPP ’25)
Young Luk (MPP ’26)
Catherine Wang (MPP ’26)
Ananya Yadav (MPP ’26)
Research Assistants and Project Coordinators
The Lab has benefitted greatly from the skills and contributions of many students in the Munk School’s Master of Public Policy and Master of Global Affairs programs.
Melika Ameresekere (MGA ’21)
Veda Jain Allington (MPP ’24)
Julia Bubelis (MPP ’23)
Duncan Cooper (MPP ’21)
Gabrielle Evans (MGA ’23)
Emily Frauts (MPP ’18)
Amanda Grant (MPP ’20)
Lauren Grosberg (MPP ’22)
Sahana Gunaratnam (MPP ’26)
Chloe Hinds (MPP ’22)
Kelly Husack (MPP ’20)
Declan Ingham (MPP ’20)
Nemesha Kukan (MPP ’20)
Rita Maragha (MPP ’26)
Daniella Marciano (MPP ’20)
Kenza Mirza (MPP ’21)
Neha Naeem (MPP ’23)
Nicholas Pearce (MGA ’24)
Alex Petras (MPP ’18)
Kinza Riaz (MPP ’23)
Ruth Rosalle (MPP ’22)
Sophia Stavropoulos (MPP ’23)
Ian Stecher (MGA ’21)
Erin Strachan (MPP ’26)
Michelle Verbeek (MGA ’20)
Rong Zhang (MPP ’24)
