Bryant Hopkins

Dr. Bryant Hopkins is an Economist at Bates White Economic Consulting. While at EPIC, he studied the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic and non-academic outcomes for Michigan K-12 students. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a Master of Arts in Economics from Duke University, and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from New York University. Dr. Hopkins then earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration from NYU, where he received an IES-Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training Fellowship and his dissertation examined the impacts of No Child Left Behind waivers on racial achievement gaps, the efficacy of special education services in NYC, and staffing trends among NYC special education teachers.