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Scott Winship

Scott Winship is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University and a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. Scott's policy interests include education, anti-poverty, and health policies. He studies inequality in scholastic achievement, the importance of single motherhood and family structure, and black-white inequality. Scott is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Prior to graduate school, Scott worked as a policy analyst and in strategic planning at Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system. In this role, he supported the advocacy efforts of the system's institutions, served as a liaison to advocacy and consulting partners, and organized initiatives to promote policy and political knowledge among senior leadership. Scott has also worked in the office of former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, where he authored memos related to welfare reform, and with the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development. Scott grew up in rural Maine and received a B.A. in Sociology and Urban Studies from Northwestern University in 1995.


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