
Tiana Marrese, MS
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Volunteerism
Nonprofits
Leadership
Management
Tiana Marrese is a first-year PhD student at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice. She holds a BS in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in economics and management science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research interests involve volunteer behavior and nonprofit management. She is passionate about utilizing her technical background to expose the underlying patterns and trends in these areas. Her current works look at COVID-19’s impact on Americans’ pro-social behaviors as well as the international variation of volunteer characteristics over the last three decades. She is particularly interested in using her research to elucidate the roles that policy can play in encouraging meaningful civic engagement.
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