Partnership Teams | Policy and Research
Erin Simpler
Program Associate
Erin Simpler joined the Partnership for Public Service in January of 2010 as a Research Fellow and worked on several research projects including reports about Assessment, Attrition and Retention. She is currently a Program Associate on the Research team.
Erin was born, raised, and currently resides in Howard County, Maryland. But, before joining the Partnership, Erin lived in Ankara, Turkey teaching English and studying Economics and Turkish at Bilkent University. She was also a founding member of the Bilkent Goats, the best (of two) Ultimate Frisbee team in Turkey. Between Turkey and the Partnership, Erin interned at the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of Consumer Protection, in their investigation division.
Erin graduated cum laude from Amherst College in 2008 with a degree in Economics. While at school, she was a captain of the Ultimate Frisbee Team as well as involved in a student-run non-profit called Educate!. Educate! raises money to provide scholarships to high school for refugees in Uganda and now provides leadership and social action education and support to high school students in Uganda. Erin spent a semester of college in Prague, Czech Republic studying post-Soviet Economics and European integration. While in Prague, she taught volunteer English classes to a civic organization that works to fight corruption. Her time at Amherst culminated in an Economics honors thesis about incentives and corruption in Soviet and post-Soviet economies. Erin is very interested in issues of governance both domestically and internationally and is very excited to be at the Partnership.
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