Senior Associate Editor:
Andrew Bongiovanni 
Andrew Bongiovanni is a second-year MPA candidate and fellow concentrating in Economic and Financial Policy. He currently works for PBCIP, a local community development corporation (CDC) in Camden, NJ working on built-environment projects and residential, commercial, and mixed-use housing developments with built-in equity to decrease the racial wealth gap and increase homeownership and community empowerment. Previously, Andrew has been a researcher on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts End Veterans Homelessness (EVH) campaign for the Executive Office of Veterans Services and at Housing Rights Initiative investigating voucher discrimination in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Andrew graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey with a BA in political science, where he worked as a research assistant studying the political-idealogical and regulatory underpinnings of the US carceral system. After Brooks, Andrew hopes to work in a policy analysis role––applying objective measurements to gauge the efficacy of social policy in the United States and joins CPR as an Associate Editor with a desire to aid in advancing novel and consequential policy discussions through the publication.
Senior Associate Editor:
Ava Lagressa
Ava LaGressa is a second year MPA student at the Cornell Jeb. E Brooks School of Public Policy. Concentrating in International Development, Ava hopes to work abroad in Historic Preservation. Originally from Staten Island, Ava is a native New Yorker who likes to explore the natural beauty of Ithaca. Ava brings a wealth of experience to the CPR team as she steps up from Contributing Writer and Public Relations Assistant to Associate Editor. She has numerous years of experience acting as the Editor in Chief of her undergraduate student newspaper The Wagnerian. She also tackled other roles on the paper such as Chief Design Editor, Contributing Writer, and Associate Editor. Currently, Ava works across campus in a number of roles including: University Assembly Chair, Women in Public Policy Co-President, and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Programing Chair. This summer she worked on preservation projects in her home town at Historic Richmond Town. She is looking forward to working further on government projects.
Associate Editor:
Maddie Miele
Madeline (Maddie) Miele is a first-year MPA student concentrating in Environmental Policy. She is familiar with the Ithaca area as she attended Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications. There, she received a B.A. in journalism and served as Editorial Director at an on-campus magazine, Passion Project. Additionally, she took environmental policy courses to supplement her strong interest in climate change. Those courses, along with learning about the importance of reporting on community-based issues, has shown her how necessary it is that strong environmental policies are implemented. During her academics, she authored two white papers covering aspects of climate change in the locations of the United Kingdom and Outer Banks, North Carolina. As well as created an in-depth startup plan for an app, “Food For Thought.” It’s a platform that aims to limit food-waste in households and educate consumers on environmentally friendly alternatives to limit waste. These experiences led her in wanting to further her studies within environmental policy while utilizing her journalistic skills. She truly values creating awareness on environmental issues. After Brooks, Maddie hopes to land a career in educating members on the severity of climate change through policymaking. She looks forward to her future endeavors and experiences within public policy to tackle the climate crisis.
Associate Editor:
Stephen Shiewi Wang
Stephen Shiwei Wang is a first-year MPA candidate concentrating in Economic and Financial Policy. Stephen aims to go into the private sector, specifically investment banking and in the long-term start a hedge fund himself in Asia. Stephen wishes to bring the policy analysis and his understanding of relevant regulations in the financial services in addition to the traditional valuation procedures and accounting measurements. Stephen has an extensive interest in macroeconomics and econometrics and have multiple working experiences using STATA and QGIS for academic research. Previously, Stephen served as the president of an undergraduate business/accounting society at UC San Diego that focuses on professional networking with local big four accounting firms. In the short-term, Stephen hopes to combine his policy analysis skills from Brooks to his financial analysis skills, and in the long-term he hopes to become an activist investor in Asian markets to accelerate social development in Asian countries.