The Client Recruitment Process
Organizations interested in working with MHPI can apply between June 1st 2021 and August 20th 2021. For more information about the application process, please see the timeline below.
The Client Recruitment Process
Organizations interested in working with MHPI can apply between June 1st 2021 and August 20th 2021. For more information about the application process, please see the timeline below.
Mental Health Policy Initiative
Meet Our Executive Team
Clare Casey
Co-Director
Clare is a second-year Master of Public Policy student at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Science, majoring in Economics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. During her summer internship, she worked at the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community, and Social Services. Clare has always been passionate about mental health advocacy and hopes to one day work in the mental health policy sphere. Through this director position, she hopes to advocate for the mental health of fellow Munk students while spreading awareness and building conversations around mental health in policy.
Anukriti Randev
Co-Director
Anukriti Randev is a student in the Masters of Global Affairs program at Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. She completed her undergraduate at Symbiosis Law School, Pune with a Bachelors in Arts and Law, specializing in Public International Law. As the Director of MHPI (Mental Health Programs and Initiatives), she strives to inform and implement better policies and programs that prioritize adequate mental health resources and conversations, both at the institutional and personal levels. Her goal is to facilitate a smoother integration process for students and specifically address the challenges faced by international students when studying abroad.
Meet Our Faculty Advisor
Laura Garcia Montoya
Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Laura Garcia-Montoya is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Prior to joining the Munk School, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a Postdoctoral Researcher in The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Politics Department at Princeton University.
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She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she also completed an M.S. in Statistics. She has also completed M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Los Andes in Colombia.
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Dr. Montoya-Garcia’s research interests are in comparative politics and research methodologies. She investigates the political economy of inequality and development in Latin America and its relationship with violence. Her interests in research methods are in the study of causal inference and measurement frameworks.
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Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review and Sociological Methods and Research. Currently, she is writing a book entitled, Trapped by Inequality: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America, in which she identifies the causes of economic inequality traps -— i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality — in the region and explains why and how some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality.
These projects have been possible with funding from the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center at Princeton University, The Buffett Institute, The Kellogg Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC), The Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Political Science Department at Northwestern University.