Building Back Locally: Supporting Puerto Rico's Municipalities in Post-Hurricane Reconstruction

by Shelly Culbertson

116 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 2020

About the author

Shelly Culbertson is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her research focus includes international development, education, innovation policy, and the Middle East. She is currently conducting research about urban services and education for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon. She is also co-leading a multi-year effort to advise the Ministry of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq on improving its K-12 and vocational education systems. She coordinated RAND's project to design programs for the Qatar National Research Fund, which has supported over $620 million in research grants. Prior to RAND, she worked at the U.S. State Department on the Turkey Desk, and at LMI Government Consulting, conducting analysis about international trade. She has written OpEds for CNN.com, U.S. News and World Report, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and other news outlets. She received a B.S. in mathematics and political science from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.