Ariana Nasrazadani

Ariana Nasrazadani
  • Assistant Researcher Senior
she/her/hers

Contact Info

Twente Hall, Room 11
Lawrence

Biography —

Ariana Nasrazadani, MA (she/her/hers), joined the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare in April 2022 and is an Assistant Researcher, Sr. Ariana holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Global and International Studies from the University of Kansas and has previous professional and research experience in community partner and relationship-building, narrative-based research, community-based and community-involved research, survey and evaluation design, and data management. Ariana is passionately dedicated to social justice, policy reform and change, and furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts for all, but especially those who are unheard and underrepresented.

 

Education —

B.A., University of Kansas, 2014
M.A., University of Kansas, 2017

Research —

Ariana provides evaluation, coordination, and research support for two projects at the School of Social Welfare:

  1. Kansas BRAVE (Kansas Bravely Raising and Activating Voices for Equity), a federally funded community-based participatory initiative to support interventions and practices focused on addressing and reducing racial inequalities in the Kansas child welfare system by centering the voices of Black and Brown families and youth impacted by the system;
  2. the THRIVE Kansas program evaluation, a multi-state evaluation of the THRIVE sexual education program and its impact on youth involved in the foster care system.

Ariana has additional research interests in diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, social justice, and social justice movements, and is an expert in Iranian geopolitics, policy, and social movements.