Our Team - PERIL Research

Staff

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Founding Director

Brian Hughes

Founding Co-Director & Associate Director

Katie Spann

Director of Operations

Pasha Dashtgard

Director of Research

La’Nita Johnson

Director of Training & Partnership Development, Higher Education

Dr. Rae Jereza

Senior Researcher

Pete Kurtz-Glovas

Deputy Director of Regional Partnerships

Wyatt Russell

Senior Program Manager & Policy Analyst

Chelsea Daymon

Program Manager, Violent Extremism Education and Resilience (VEER)

Laura Kralicky

Communications & Public Affairs Specialist

Rashmi Chimmalgi

Program Coordinator, Translational Research & Education Development (TRED)

Norah-Frida Tebid

Executive and Administrative Assistant

Research Assistants

JJ West

PhD Research Associate

Meili Criezis

PhD Research Associate

Emily Stingle

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Nora Lewis

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Nicholas Caraballo

Graduate Research Assistant

PERIL Dogs

Sugar

Dog

Tofu

Dog

Chino

Dog

Advisory and Ethics Board

Shan Soe-Lin

Board Member

Amy Spitalnick

Board Member

Ed Schaffer

Board Member

Julica Hermann de la Fuente

Ethics Adviser

Rabia Chaudry

Ethics Adviser

Daniel Tutt

Ethics Adviser