Biography
Olivia Bergman is a PhD student focusing on social policy, taxation design and citizen perceptions of governance. Her field experience includes work with homeless populations, refugees, abused women, ex-prisoners, and exploited workers in Scandinavia, Latin America and the United States. She graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Peace and Justice Studies, Spanish and Psychology. Her degree includes studies of European law and politics at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, work at the MIT Behavioral Research Lab, and field research on civil war and gang violence in Central America. Prior to joining MIT, she was a research and policy associate at the Community Training and Assistance Center in Boston, where she focused on civil society and education policy. She is a recipient of the Alice Freeman Palmer Graduate Fellowship, and was recently awarded the Prince Bertil Prize by the Sweden-America Foundation. Her work is also generously supported by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Biography
Olivia Bergman is a PhD student focusing on social policy, taxation design and citizen perceptions of governance. Her field experience includes work with homeless populations, refugees, abused women, ex-prisoners, and exploited workers in Scandinavia, Latin America and the United States. She graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Peace and Justice Studies, Spanish and Psychology. Her degree includes studies of European law and politics at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, work at the MIT Behavioral Research Lab, and field research on civil war and gang violence in Central America. Prior to joining MIT, she was a research and policy associate at the Community Training and Assistance Center in Boston, where she focused on civil society and education policy. She is a recipient of the Alice Freeman Palmer Graduate Fellowship, and was recently awarded the Prince Bertil Prize by the Sweden-America Foundation. Her work is also generously supported by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.