Aaron Yore-VanOosterhout, Ph.D.
Research Manager, 2017–2024
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Aaron Yore-VanOosterhout served as a research manager at the Johnson Center from 2017 to 2024. His work included collaborating with organizations providing housing to people experiencing homelessness, educators and administrators at K–12 schools, and universities providing postsecondary education in prison, among many others.
Aaron has a doctorate in history from Michigan State University, with a focus on race, mutual-aid societies, and anti-state rebellion in 19th-century Mexico. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame.
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