Marina Mileo Gorzig is an Assistant Professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Marina an equity-focused quantitative researcher with more than ten years of experience conducting policy-relevant research in employment, health, and housing. She has expertise in field experiments, quasi-experimental design, and analysis of large administrative, census, and survey datasets. Originally from Minnesota, much of her work focuses on Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Marina previously served as a Researcher and Task Lead at Mathematica, where she worked on evaluations and led quantitative tasks for multiple federal agencies. Her work included forecasting policy outcomes, developing equity-focused statistical simulations, estimating costs of large federal programs, analyzing administrative datasets, and communicating findings to senior federal leadership through reports, briefs, presentations, and data visualizations. She worked closely with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure analyses were rigorous, policy-relevant, and accessible to non-technical audiences.
Marina has held research roles at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development, the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, and has served as an Assistant Professor at St. Catherine University. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Duke University, an M.S. in Economics from Tufts University, and a B.A. in Economics from Earlham College. Marina enjoys trail running, all-season biking, spending time with her family, and traveling.