On April 24, 2023, Director of Research and Policy Emilia Calma, was mentioned by Georgetown McCourt School:
The 2023 Georgetown Public Policy Challenge grand prize was awarded to William Macci (L’24) and Sparsha Muralidhara (G’23) for their proposal, E-QualityDC, which empowers DC public schools to bridge the digital divide for at-risk students, connecting families to accessible and affordable resources.
E-QualityDC was one of five teams selected as finalists in this year’s Policy Challenge. All five finalist teams received a $1,500 scholarship prize, and the winning team received a grand total scholarship prize of $3,000. Macci and Muralidhara presented their proposal live on March 31, 2023, to a panel of five judges, including two former Policy Challenge winners, Catherine Lyons, director of policy and coalitions at the Economic Innovation Group, and Emilia Calma, director of policy and research at the DC Policy Center.