About our Team

Our team is co-led by principal investigators: Lauren Lanahan (U. of Oregon) and Amol M. Joshi (Wake Forest U.) and senior personnel: Evan Johnson (UNC Chapel Hill) and Iman Hemmatian (Cal Poly Pomona).

We are grateful for the generous funding support for APPRISE from the National Science Foundation through an NSF RAPID grant (Award #2032914) and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation through the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship program.

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Thank you for your interest in APPRISE. We look forward to engaging with you as part of our ongoing initiatives and exploring new ways to accelerate public policy research on innovative small enterprises in the U.S.