Kerri M. Raissian is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on child and family policy with an emphasis on understanding how policies affect fertility, family formation, and family violence. Raissian’s research is interdisciplinary and draws on principles from program evaluation, economic demography, and applied microeconomics.

Raissian is the co-director of UConn’s Gun Violence Prevention – Research Interest Group (GVP-RIG) and the co-leader of the Connecticut Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. Raissian also serves on Connecticut’s Commission for Community Gun Violence Prevention and Intervention  She was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and completed her doctoral degree in public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2013.