Mercy Ogutu

Mercy Ogutu is the Research Coordinator at the Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR). She is primarily responsible for coordinating, implementing, and assisting with managing CPAR and NREI research initiatives and deliverables. The CPAR initiatives include Voter Engagement, Tech Equity, and Health Equity; NREI initiatives include Criminal Justice, Economic Equity, Education, and Health Equity.

Before joining the CBCF, Mercy interned for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff, and Georgia Representative Hank Johnson, assisting in policy research in voting rights, economic development, criminal justice, public health, and federal housing tax programs analysis. Additionally, Mercy was a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation.

In Washington, DC, Mercy has lobbied with bi-partisan groups to provide policy recommendations on immigration, transportation and infrastructure, affordable housing initiatives, and minority small business economic support programs in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Mercy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs with a Minor in Africana Studies from Trinity Washington University (TWU), emphasizing human rights and foreign policy, and an Associate Degree of Applied Science in Network Systems Administration from DeVry University. Mercy is a proud Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society member and the NAACP 7783-B Washington D.C. Youth Council.