NLIHC is excited to welcome Esther Colón-Bermúdez as our new Research Analyst. Esther will support NLIHC’s Research Team in documenting housing needs, analyzing housing policies, and advancing evidence-based solutions to promote equitable access to safe and affordable housing. Esther worked previously as a Research Assistant at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she contributed to studies on housing mobility and health outcomes through the Mobility Asthma Project and the Healthy Children Demonstration Evaluation in Baltimore. She also interned at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), where she conducted policy research on disaster recovery programs, and at the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement, where she studied housing insecurity and gentrification in New Jersey.
Esther holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico, where she completed an honors thesis on gentrification and eminent domain in Puerto Rico. She is passionate about using research to inform housing policies that promote stability and equity for low-income communities.