CALIFORNIA POLICY LAB - Key Persons
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Irvine, 2024
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- Development Director
- Development Director, UC Berkeley
Abby Snider is the Development Director at the California Policy Lab, overseeing all fundraising including grant writing and developing and stewarding philanthropic relationships. She believes strongly in the power of philanthropy to drive systemic improvement, and in the importance of a responsive government addressing social needs. She has focused her career on addressing social inequities in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. Through early career opportunities, including serving with AmeriCorps, Abby saw that all children have the capacity to succeed but that social inequities create large barriers for children to fulfill their potential.
Prior to joining CPL, Abby worked for eight years at Green Dot Public Schools, which manages 24 middle and high schools in the lowest income neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Memphis, TN, and Beaumont, TX. At Green Dot, Abby fundraised for innovative programs that accelerated learning and opened pathways of tangible opportunity for historically underserved students. For example, in close partnership with individual donors, Abby established a scholarship program to provide Green Dot alumni with grants to support the hidden costs of college not typically covered by financial aid (such as a flight home for winter break, or dorm supplies).
Abby holds a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley and a JD from William & Mary Law School. At William & Mary, she represented clients in the Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic on federal criminal appeal, and the Special Education Clinic in Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development and guardianship proceedings. She is also a member of the California Bar Association. Outside of work, Abby can be found reading, wandering outside on long walks, or at a Dodgers game.
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- Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California
- Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley
Abhay Aneja is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies how legal institutions shape social and economic inequality, from domestic and comparative perspectives, with a focus on the law of democracy and criminal justice.
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- Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA
Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University for seven years. Her research examines the relationships between socio-economic status and health, with a particular focus on education and income. Her most recent work investigates whether cash transfers to poor families improve poor children's education, lifetime incomes and long-term health. She is currently on the board of editors of Demography, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and associate editor for the Journal of Health Economics. Lleras-Muney is a faculty fellow at the California Center for Population Research (CCPR), the Center for Economic and Social Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Adriana Lleras-Muney is currently working with Moshe Buchinsky to advise the City of Los Angeles...
Alan J. Auerbach is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, Director of the Burch Center...
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- Economics and Law and Director of the Burch
Alan J. Auerbach is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, and former Chair of the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously taught at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Economics Department Chair. Professor Auerbach was Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation in 1992 and has been an adviser to several government agencies and institutions. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, having previously served as an Executive Committee Member and Vice President of that association and as Editor of its Journal of Economic Perspectives and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Professor Auerbach is a past President of the Western Economic Association International and the National Tax Association, from which he received the Daniel M. Holland Medal. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the National Academy of Social Insurance
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University
Alex Bell is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Prior to joining CPL, Dr. Bell earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At CPL, Dr. Bell was part of a team focused on labor and employment, and led economic analyses, authored academic papers and policy briefs, and presented results at conferences and seminars.
Dr. Bell's research documents unequal experiences of workers in the labor market and the implications of these inequalities for society as a whole. Much of his research has leveraged large-scale administrative datasets to inform research on these topics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-authored a series of rapid-response analyses of the crisis' disparate economic impacts on workers through the lens of California's unemployment insurance claims microdata and deployed quasi-experimental research designs to measure how workers responded to the more generous federal unemployment benefits provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a methodological line of research, he has put forward a new framework for economists to study the role of job choice in income inequality. Ongoing work extends the framework to measure the importance of geographic amenities in housing inequities and gentrification.
Another line of Dr. Bell's applied labor market research studies the intersection of inequality of opportunity with innovation. Through linking US tax records and data on who is granted patents, he has examined costs to society of lost innovation resulting from socioeconomic barriers that kids face and the role exposure to innovation may play in reducing childhood disparities across gender, race, and parental background. In related work, he has analyzed effects on innovation of both tax progressivity and peer spillovers. Another project seeks to isolate the social exposure channel in children's success by using data from a 30-year-old randomized control trial of a mentoring program and linking it with present-day administrative tax records. Dr. Bell's upcoming work on innovation and inequality will explore the role of student loan policy on innovation through a linkage of patent and credit bureau records.
Dr. Bell's research has appeared in top economics publications, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and American Economic Review. His research has also been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, Vox, and The Economist, as well as in the 2019 USPTO report to Congress on under-represented groups in innovation. Dr. Bell's research has been supported by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Kauffman Foundation, and Arnold Foundation.
Outside of work, he can be found building furniture from salvaged wood, metal, and occasionally sailboats.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017
- Researcher at CPL - Berkeley
- Researcher, Berkeley
- Researcher, UC Berkeley
Alissa is a Researcher at CPL-Berkeley, where she studies the impact of policy and program reforms on the criminal legal system. She is passionate about using data and evidence to improve community safety and to explore alternatives to incarceration. Alissa is interested in research that moves beyond the traditional measures of recidivism and elevates metrics that help us better understand how programs and policies support people returning to community after involvement with the criminal legal system.
She is the co-author of several CPL reports related to the criminal legal system in California, including research on alternatives to incarceration, restorative justice, pretrial reform, and record clearance. In her role at CPL, she works with local and state government agencies to provide analysis, guidance on program design to facilitate evaluation, and technical assistance on criminal legal system data.
Prior to joining CPL, she was a policy and research fellow at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office under George Gascón. The research and analytical support she provided to the San Francisco Sentencing Commission led to the first local recidivism study in San Francisco, as well as a public-facing Outcomes and Desistance Dashboard.
Alissa holds an MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a B.A. from the University of San Diego. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Pathfinder Network, a community organization in her hometown of Portland that provides individuals and families impacted by the criminal legal system with the support they need to be safe and thrive. Outside of work, you can find her playing cribbage, crosswording, or enjoying a local park with her daughter.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018 - 2019
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2021
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- Professor of Public Policy
- Public Policy and Political Science and Co - Director, the People Lab at UC Berkeley
Amy Lerman is a Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Co-Director, The People Lab at UC Berkeley. Professor Lerman writes widely on issues related to political engagement, public opinion, and public policy. Her recent work examines the ways that growing economic inequality, persistent racial bias, and the rise of the carceral state influence citizens' political beliefs, racial identities, and rates of political participation. She is particularly interested in the political attitudes and behavior of the low-income, youth, and racial minorities. Professor Lerman is the author of two books on criminal justice policy, The Modern Prison Paradox (Cambridge University Press) and Arresting Citizenship (The University of Chicago Press). She also writes on American bureaucracy, privatization, and public/private partnerships. Her current book project, The Public Competency Crisis, explores the micro-politics of privatization, assessing the ways that citizens understand and form preferences toward public versus private provision of goods and services. Professor Lerman's scholarship can be found in a variety of journals, including the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Punishment and Society. She received her PhD in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Data Analyst
- Data Analyst, Los Angeles
- Data Analyst, UCLA
Andi's interest in changing sociopolitical systems was first sparked while earning their undergraduate degree. They studied the connection between the human psyche and how a lack of empathy and self-love, and a desire for power, often underlie racism, misogyny, patriarchy, genocide and sexual violence. They also studied how systems of oppression, such as colonization and capitalism, gave rise to poverty and continue to shape other inequitable systems that continue causing harm today.
After earning a BA in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, Andi went on to work directly with people experiencing homelessness in South Bend and then worked on policy solutions to address and prevent homelessness at United Way of Greater Los Angeles. They recently finished a certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning with Bloom Institute of Technology, where they recognized the potential to harness the power of data to reduce harm and change sociopolitical structures.
At CPL, Andi is a Data Analyst working on projects related to youth homelessness and family homelessness using predictive analytics and machine learning. Outside of work Andi is passionate about decolonizing relationships with others and themselves, cooking, photography, languages, exercise, farming, basketball, and physics.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Davis, 2024
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- Research Assistant, UCB, 2020
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- Senior Researcher
- Director of the Technology and Work
- Director of the Technology and Work Program
- Is Director of the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Annette Bernhardt Director of the Technology and Work program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Annette Bernhardt is director of the Technology and Work program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, as well as a senior researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She recently was visiting professor in the UC Berkeley sociology department, as well as a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Previously she was policy co-director of the National Employment Law Project, where she coordinated policy analysis and research support for campaigns around living wage jobs, enforcement of workers' rights and accountable development. A leading scholar of low-wage work, Bernhardt has helped develop and analyze innovative policy responses to economic restructuring in the United States. She was one of the principal investigators of the landmark study Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers, which documented high rates of minimum wage, overtime, and other workplace violations in the low-wage labor market. She has also been a leader in collaborating with immigrant worker centers and unions to develop innovative models of community-based research. Her current research focuses on domestic outsourcing, the gig economy, and the impact of new technologies on low-wage work. Dr. Bernhardt's most recent book is the co-edited The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America's Labor Market. She has also published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among others. Bernhardt received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1993.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2020 - 2021
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- Research Manager
- Research Manager, UCLA
April Nunn is a Research Manager at the California Policy Lab (CPL) where she manages the Homelessness Prevention Community Advisory Board and conducts qualitative research on mixed methods projects in the homelessness portfolio. She is particularly interested in how processes can be streamlined in order to rapidly connect people who are the most vulnerable with the resources they need. She is passionate about CPL's research and the impact it can have on policy issues across California.
As a native Angeleno, April has seen the direct impact homelessness has had on her community- in particular, its impact on close family members. These experiences drove her to study communities by delving into their history, their people, and their government policies. She later translated this passion in her work at nonprofit agencies in communities across the US.
Prior to joining CPL, April worked as a Program Manager at the Downtown Women's Center where she managed the creation of an evidence-based program to house and provide supportive services to one hundred of the most vulnerable women experiencing homelessness in the Skid Row community. She was also a Program Manager at UCLA's Center for Community Learning where she supported UCLA students with service projects in the surrounding Los Angeles community and at a nonprofit serving transition age youth experiencing homelessness, where she provided them with interim housing and services. She has conducted evaluations of LAUSD's lowest-performing schools' attendance to determine interventions to improve outcomes and also taught 7th grade science in St. Louis.
April holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Outside of CPL, April enjoys playing basketball, exploring LA, spending time with her family and playing with her English bulldog, Sir Snarls Barkley.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2019
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- Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley 's Goldman School of Public
- Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley 's Goldman School of Public Policy
- Associate Professor of Public Policy and Statistics
Avi Feller is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, where he works at the intersection of public policy, data science, and statistics. His methodological research centers on learning more from social policy evaluations, especially randomized experiments. His applied research focuses on working with governments on using data to design, implement, and evaluate policies. Prior to his doctoral studies, Feller served as Special Assistant to the Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget and worked at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Feller received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science and Applied Mathematics from Yale University.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
Barbie Robinson brings over 27 years of experience in the fields of health care administration, policy, and research, and is currently the Executive Director for Harris County Public Health-the third largest County in the nation-including the City of Houston, Texas.
Throughout her career, Robinson has been recognized for leading collaborative efforts to address health disparities, as well as community health improvement, and health equity.
Before her move to Harris County in May 2021, she served as Director of Sonoma County Department of Health Services (DHS) for five years while concurrently serving as the Interim Executive Director of the Sonoma County Community Development Commission in California for over a year.
Robinson's leadership was instrumental in the formation of Sonoma County's ACCESS Initiative, a nationally and internationally-awarded care coordination model that helps vulnerable individuals achieve self-sufficiency and well-being. While at DHS, she prioritized the Department's emergency preparedness efforts, led the County's COVID-19 emergency response, and oversaw the emergency responses during the County's wildfires in 2017, 2019 and 2020. She also led the County's emergency response to address the County's largest homeless encampment in 2020.
Prior to her executive experience at the local level, Robinson spent 15 years working for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) overseeing the administration of Federal healthcare programs including Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Medicare Fee-for-Service program.
During her time at CMS, Robinson held numerous leadership positions, including Associate Regional Administrator (ARA) of the San Francisco and Atlanta Regional Offices Division of Financial Management & Fee-for-Service Operations her leadership earning her the Administrator's Achievement Award in 2014.
Robinson earned her Bachelor of Arts with a triple major (Political Science, Spanish, and International Sociology) from Middlebury College, her Master of Public Policy, Health and Social Policy from Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.
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- Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California
- Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Ben Handel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Economics and participated in the 2010 Review of Economics Studies European Tour. His research focuses on the microeconomics of consumer choice and market structure in the health care sector, with an emphasis on health insurance markets. His most recent research has emphasized the important role that consumer choice frictions, such as inertia and limited information, can have when assessing the welfare outcomes of different regulatory policies in health insurance markets. In addition, his work studies incentive design and adoption of information technology by medical providers. Dr. Handel has partnered with a range of large firms and policy organizations in the health care sector to study questions in these areas. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 2010, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2011. He received an A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 2004.
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- Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Ben Hyman is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with interests in labor economics, public finance, and urban economics. His primary research uses employer-employee matched data to analyze the effects of diverse social insurance and retraining incentives on displaced workers and the long-term unemployed. He also studies policies targeted toward distressed local labor markets, including business location tax incentives and municipal debt market policies. Prior to joining the Fed, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC San Diego, 2024
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- Researcher at Mathematica
- Researcher at Mathematica, in the Human Services Division
Brett Fischer is a researcher at Mathematica, in the Human Services Division. Prior to this role, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Policy Lab.
Brett's research uses applied microeconomic methods to better understand how to make more equitable public policy, particularly in education and criminal justice. An economist by training, his overarching goal is to translate nuanced policy questions into actionable insights. His academic work analyses a range of topics, including the benefits of school board diversity and the impact of prosecutors and defense attorneys on incarceration rates. As a postdoc at CPL, Brett focused on actionable research about the economic well-being of Californians, including measuring the take-up of anti-poverty tax credits; understanding the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic; and evaluating pre-trial interventions for criminal defendants.
Outside of work, Brett is an enthusiastic reader, runner, and traveler.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017
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- Senior Data Scientist, Los Angeles
- Senior Data Scientist, UCLA
Brian leads CPL's data science research on a wide range of projects related to homelessness in Los Angeles, with a particular focus on predictive analytics, program evaluation , and data architecture. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, Brian started his undergraduate computer science degree with the intention of pursuing a straightforward career path in IT. World events soon intervened, however, with 9/11 and the ensuing violence, conflicts, and policy responses of the US and Australia awakened a desire to obtain a deeper understanding of social structures and the operations of power. He subsequently pursued degrees in English and Philosophy before returning to IT and data analytics, where he worked in the cinema exhibition and insurance industries before joining the California Policy Lab.
Brian is especially proud of leading CPL's data science research for the Homeless Prevention Unit (HPU) pilot program, which combines predictive analytics with an innovative proactive outreach strategy to provide homeless prevention services to high-risk utilizers of LA County health services. Brian is the co-author of several CPL reports focused on addressing homelessness in Los Angeles.
Brian also believes passionately in the importance of incorporating data ethnography into his data science work. Data ethnography is the methodical study of the human dimension of data collection and the impact institutional and political factors have on how data gets collected and for whom. Outside of work, Brian plays classical piano and violin.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017
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- Undergraduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017 - 2018
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- Research Assistant
- Research Assistant, UC Berkeley
Cara Tan is a Research Assistant at the California Policy Lab. At CPL, she works in the education, health, and social safety net policy areas. She believes in the importance of accessible and reliable data as a key tool for evaluating existing issues and informing policymaking.
Prior to joining CPL, she worked on projects covering a range of topics including lung cancer screening disparities in a multiethnic cohort and the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on intergenerational mobility in the Philippines. While initially interested in health policy, her experiences working with students has spurred an interest in education policy as well. Cara is fascinated by the interconnectedness of systems, especially regarding the inadvertent impacts of decisions.
Cara holds a BA in Economics and Chinese from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Outside of work, she enjoys going on walks, playing word and logic games, and trying her hand at various crafts.
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- Financial Analyst
- Financial Analyst, Los Angeles
- Financial Analyst, UCLA
Carie Clinton is a financial analyst at the California Policy Lab (CPL). Prior to working at CPL, Carie worked with the University of Oklahoma and a Native American Tribal government. In these roles, she oversaw finances and program integrity for multiple grants including federal, state and foundation grants. Carie has over 12 years experience working from pre-award to post-award.
Carie holds a BS degree in business management with a minor in mathematics from East Central University in Oklahoma. Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, listening to live music and spending time with friends and family.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, 2024
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2021 - 2022
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019 - 2020
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019
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- Advisory Board
- Vice President, Impact & Strategy for the United Way
Chris Ko serves as Vice President, Impact & Strategy for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, overseeing its efforts to ensure every resident in LA County has a quality education, a stable job, and safe housing. In his time here, he has helped craft the community coalitions to create and pass historic ballot measures around housing (HHH), homelessness (H), and racial justice (J). He also doubled participation in the homeless count and lead the architecture of the Coordinated Entry System.
Chris has enjoyed seeing different approaches to social change over the last 20 years working to expand community schools and close the digital divide in West Philadelphia and managing IT at a Liberian Refugee Camp Self-Help Initiative. He began his time in Los Angeles serving as an economic development policy aide for Mayor Villaraigosa, helping to design Bank on LA, which went on to bring 10,000+ low-income Angelenos into the financial mainstream. He was subsequently named as a Coro Fellow and worked on special projects for SEIU 721, KPCC, and LAUSD VP Yolie Flores. He now proudly serves on the board of Brilliant Corners and is thrilled to be supported as a Stanton Fellow by the Durfee Foundation. He is happily devoted to building the rich community that is Los Angeles County and is in the middle of a quest to visit each of its 88 cities.
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- Operations Director, Berkeley
- Operations Director, UC Berkeley
Chris oversees CPL Berkeley's core business operations, including HR, finance and day-to-day administrative functions. A veteran of the San Francisco Bay Area's nonprofit sector, he brings more than 20 years experience working at organizations serving children and families, at-risk youth, and the blind and visually impaired community. A fifth-generation California native, Chris is proud to support CPL's work improving the lives of Californians through transforming public policy. He and his wife spend most of their free time chasing or being chased by their two small children around their home in Oakland. Chris holds a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley.
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- Research Fellow, UCLA 2021
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- Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley
Christopher Walters joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor in 2013 after completing a PhD in economics at MIT. Walters is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Affiliate at the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) and an affiliate of J-PAL North America. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination.
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- Senior Data Analyst, Los Angeles
- Senior Data Analyst, UCLA
Colin first became interested in programs that help those most marginalized by poverty, inequity, and structural racism as a debate coach for the Bay Area Urban Debate League. While working there, Colin ran a debate league for students who attended public schools that did not have their own debate programs. In working with these students, he saw firsthand the impact of racial and economic inequities in the education system. Those experiences fuel Colin's desire to improve government services for California's most vulnerable individuals and families. After moving to Los Angeles, Colin shifted his policy focus to homelessness due to the sheer magnitude of the housing crisis in the region and the cascading, intersectional consequences of losing stable housing.
At CPL, Colin analyzes data for multiple projects on homelessness. Colin is responsible for cleaning, linking, and manipulating administrative data to generate analytic datasets capable of answering policy and research questions on programs and services in Los Angeles County. Colin also contributes to applied research projects by writing, visualizing, and presenting findings to government and community partners. In addition to his role at CPL, Colin is embedded as a consulting analyst at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency (LAHSA), where he provides technical advice on managing and analyzing large administrative datasets.
Colin uses his knowledge of econometrics, proficiency in multiple programming languages, and experience in program evaluation and policy implementation to provide analytical insights to better serve people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. This includes estimating the size of vulnerable groups in County services, such as those with serious mental illness, or measuring how well the system connects individuals to the services and housing they need to escape homelessness. Colin is the co-author of several CPL reports focused on addressing homelessness in Los Angeles.
Prior to joining CPL, Colin worked as a Research Assistant with the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation where he conducted original quantitative analysis for the Homelessness Policy Research Institute and the Neighborhood Data for Social Change platform. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and his Masters of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. In his free time, Colin enjoys hiking and cooking.
Craig Turk is an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and WGA Award-nominated writer and producer. Mr. Turk is the creator of multiple television series, including FBI, which is among the highest-performing dramas on network television. He was Executive Producer of The Good Wife, as well as of the hit ABC series Private Practice. Prior to that, Mr. Turk wrote on Boston Legal, Cold Case, Law & Order, and The Guardian.
In addition to screenwriting, Mr. Turk has worked on a number of domestic political campaigns, on behalf of both candidates and specific ballot initiatives. He was Chief Counsel of John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000, where he directed all legal and crisis management activities, supervising a nationwide network of attorneys, investigators, and researchers.
Mr. Turk is a native of southern California. He graduated from Harvard College with high honors, won a scholarship to pursue graduate studies in politics at St. John's College, Oxford, and graduated from Harvard Law School with honors.
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- Professor of Law and Director of Student Loan Law Initiative, UC Irvine
- Professor of Law at the UC Irvine School of Law
Dalié Jiménez is a Professor of Law at the UC Irvine School of Law and director of its Student Loan Law Initiative.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy, she has published articles in the areas of bankruptcy, student debt, and the intersection of the two, access to justice, civil rights, and debt buying and collection, among other topics. She is one of three principal investigators in the Financial Distress Research Project, a large-scale, longitudinal, randomized control trial evaluating the effectiveness of legal and counseling interventions to help individuals in financial distress.
Jiménez spent a year as founding staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau working on debt collection, debt relief, credit reporting, and student loan issues. Prior to her academic career, she clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, was a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston, and worked on consumer protection issues for a Massachusetts state senator.
Born in Cuba, Professor Jiménez emigrated to the US as a teenager, an experience which informs her research. She lives in Irvine with her husband, toddler, and three cats. She tweets about all of these topics at @daliejimenez.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Professor of Economics at the University of California
David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982-83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card's research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender-related issues. He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co-edited eight additional titles, and has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the AEA in 2021 and co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- President and Chief Executive Officer of the James Irvine Foundation, Lea
Don Howard is President and Chief Executive Officer of The James Irvine Foundation, leading the foundation to focus on a singular goal: ensuring all low-income workers in California have the power to advance economically. Don was previously Irvine's Executive Vice President, directing grantmaking activities.
Previously, Don was a partner at The Bridgespan Group, leading their San Francisco office and advising nonprofit leaders. He also helped corporate leaders with strategy and organizational effectiveness as a Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton and as a Managing Director at the Scient Corporation.
As a volunteer, Don has been an activist around HIV and health issues, and he held a USAID posting to advise private enterprises in Central Europe. He has written, spoken, and taught classes on philanthropic strategy, nonprofit management, and social entrepreneurship.
Don earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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- CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum is the CEO of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). LAHSA is the lead agency in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, which is the regional planning body that coordinates housing and services for homeless families and individuals in Los Angeles County. LAHSA coordinates and manages over $800 million annually in federal, state, county, and city funds for programs that provide shelter, housing, and services to people experiencing homelessness. Prior to LAHSA, Dr. Adams Kellums was the CEO of St. Joseph Center, a social service organization offering outreach & engagement, housing, mental health, and education & vocational programs across Los Angeles County.
Dr. Adams Kellum holds a gubernatorial appointment to the California Department of Housing and Community Development's No Place Like Home Program Advisory Committee.
She has also served on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness, as well as the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Race Equity Network. She currently sits on the Housing California Board, the California Policy Lab Advisory Board, and the Board of Trustees for Mount Saint Mary's University.
Born and raised in Southern California, she received her B.A. from the University of Southern California and earned an M.A. from Ball State University before completing her Ph.D. at Stanford University.
Dr. Alex Bui received his PhD in Computer Science in 2000, upon which he joined the UCLA faculty and the UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics Group (MII). His research includes informatics and data science for biomedical research and healthcare in areas related to distributed information architectures and mHealth; data and probabilistic modeling methods, including machine learning and sequential decision making; and data visualization. His work bridges contemporary computational approaches with the opportunities arising from the breadth of biomedical observations and the electronic health record (EHR), tackling the associated translational challenges.
Dr. Bui has a long history of leading extramurally funded research, including from multiple different NIH institutes (NCI, NLM, NINDS, NIBIB). He was Co-Director for the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Centers Coordination Center; and Application Lead for the NSF-funded Expeditions in Computing Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), exploring cutting-edge hardware/software techniques for accelerating algorithms used in healthcare. He is currently the Director of the NIH-funded Los Angeles PRISMS Center, a U54 focused on mHealth informatics. He is also a Program Director of three separate NIH T32s at UCLA in the areas of informatics, biomedical big data, and data science; and is Co-Director of UCLA CTSI's Informatics Program and the Center for SMART Health.
Dr. Alex Bui is a Professor in the Departments of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering, and Bioinformatics...
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- Researcher With the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data
- Researcher With the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research ( CALDER ) at American Institutes for Research
Elise Dizon-Ross Researcher with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research
Dr. Elise Dizon-Ross is a researcher with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data...
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- Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
- Certified Psychiatrist
Dr. Enrico Castillo is a board certified psychiatrist and board certified in public and community psychiatry by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. Dr. Castillo is a public psychiatrist, health services/health policy researcher, and Director of UCLA Community Psychiatry Education and Training with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Center for Social Medicine and Humanities and the Associate Director of Residency Education at UCLA Semel Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Dr. Castillo's research is focused on community-public-academic partnerships, the integration of mental health and social services, and public mental health and homelessness/housing policies. Common themes in his research are a focus on the mental and social well-being of underserved and at-risk populations, like those with serious mental illness and the chronically homeless. Dr. Castillo's research has been conducted in close partnership with local, state, and national agencies and community organizations including the Office of the Surgeon General, the New York State Office of Mental Health, the Los Angeles County Departments of Mental Health and Health Services, the RAND Corporation, and Healthy African American Families II.
Dr. Joel Braslow is a psychiatrist and historian whose work focuses on the social, cultural, and...
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- Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Dr. Maria Raven is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, a physician and health services researcher,...
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- Director of the Social Policies for Health Equity
Dr. Rita Hamad is a social epidemiologist and the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity...
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- IT Manager
- Eduard Tomany IT Manager, Los Angeles
- IT Manager, UCLA
Eduard Tomany is the IT Manager at the California Policy Lab. Prior to joining CPL he worked at the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State University. He is a cloud computing enthusiast, and founder of Penn State's Cloud Platforms Community of Practice. For his work at the Penn State Social Science Research Institute, Ed was awarded the SSRI Innovation Award. Ed holds an MA in Physical Education from University Of Zagreb, Croatia, and Drum Performance degree from Los Angeles College Of Music.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018 - 2019
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018 - 2019
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Berkeley, 2024
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management
- Kennedy School of Government
Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on how to improve government by focusing on its people. Specifically, her studies consider how we can improve diversity in recruitment and selection, and how different work environments affect performance and motivation in government. As the former VP and Head of Research and Evaluation at the Behavioral Insights Team in North America, she worked with city governments across the US to improve programs using behavioral science and to build capacity around rigorous evaluation. Prior to this role, Elizabeth was a policy advisor to the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, focusing on social innovation and public sector reform. She has also worked for the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), evaluating and designing innovative social programs in Bangladesh, Morocco, and France. Dr. Linos holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, where she also completed her A.B. in Government and Economics, magna cum laude with highest honors.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics at Pomona College
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Pomona College. His research interests include public economics, behavioral economics, political economy, and labor economics. He has special interest in tax policy, worker labor supply, pay transparency, government benefit acquisition, gender and competition, the behavioral foundations of individual decision making, choice complexity, government labor policy, and electoral and extra-electoral forms of political influence. His work uses experiments in the lab and the field as well as quasi-experimental and applied micro-econometric methods. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Economics & Philosophy from the London School of Economics, and, a B.A. in both Economics and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining Pomona, he was proud to work for the California Policy Lab at UCLA.
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- Professor
- Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine
Emily Owens is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Economics. Professor Owens studies a wide range of topics in the economics of crime, including policing, sentencing, and the impact of local public policies on criminal behavior. Her research examines how government policies affect the prevalence of criminal activity as well as how agents within the criminal justice system, particularly police, prosecutors, and judges, respond to policy changes. Professor Owens is engaged in ongoing research projects on police training, alcohol regulation, immigration policy, and local economic development programs. Professor Owens received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Emily Owens Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine
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- Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs
- Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles
Emily Weisburst is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on topics in labor economics and public finance, including criminal justice and education.
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- Public Policy and Management and Faculty Director of the.
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- Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth
- Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California at Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University from 1999 to 2002, before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2002. He is currently editor of the Journal of Public Economics and Co-Director of the Public Policy Program at CEPR. He was awarded the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009. His main areas of research are centered around taxation, redistribution, and inequality, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective.
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- Researcher
- Researcher, UC Berkeley
Erika Brown is a Researcher at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. A social epidemiologist by training, she seeks to improve population health and equity through data-driven policy insights. In her role at CPL, Erika works with government partners to enhance data linkages and identify how social safety-net programs can be made more equitable, accessible, and successful at promoting all facets of wellbeing within her beloved and complex home state.
Before joining the lab, Erika spent a decade working with academic, nonprofit, and public agencies to evaluate the uptake and health impacts of North American socioeconomic and nutritional interventions. She has leveraged a variety of datasets to assess policy-relevant research questions including predictors of Earned Income Tax Credit receipt, the impacts of eviction moratoria on eviction filing rates, and the influence of child tax credit reform on household food insecurity rates in Canada. Spurred by an interest in how growing inter-sector efforts can best address the root causes and downstream effects of poverty, Erika most recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network at UC San Francisco, where she primarily studied healthcare organizations' efforts to address material deprivation within their patient populations and broader communities.
Erika holds a PhD in Epidemiology and MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from UC Berkeley and BA in American Studies and Community Health from Tufts University. Outside of work, you can find her running, writing limericks, and (mis)identifying the Bay Area's vast array of flora and fauna.
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- Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
- Executive Director of the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley
- Executive Director, UC Berkeley
areas of expertise
Housing and homelessness
Consumer finance
Racial disparities
Cross-systems effects
Technology & innovation
Strategy
education
JD, UC Berkeley
MPP, UC Berkeley
BA, Political Science and Africana Studies, Vassar College
Evan was born and bred in California, and believes it is the most beautiful place on Earth. He co-founded the California Policy Lab because he believes that government can and should be the strongest force for good in society. Evan's ardent curiosity led him to train in the unwieldy trifecta of researcher, lawyer, and IT professional. He uses all three tools as Executive Director of CPL's Berkeley site, where he enjoys analyzing and solving complex problems, in organizations, policy, and society. He has authored and co-authored CPL publications focused on migration patterns in California during the pandemic, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the social safety net, and guides for linking administrative data.
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- Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA
Felipe Goncalves is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research applies tools from labor and public economics to understand issues in policing and crime. In particular, his research topics include developing methods to detect discrimination, identifying the factors that affect police misconduct and use of force, and studying the impact of various police actions on criminal behavior. As an affiliate of the California Policy Lab, Felipe is working with the LAPD on several projects aimed at measuring and improving police-community trust. He is also a research adviser to the New York Board of Corrections, assisting in their oversight of the New York Department of Corrections' usage of segregated housing. Prior to joining UCLA, Felipe was a post-doctoral fellow at the Crime Lab New York.
Felipe's research has been funded by the Richard A. Lester Fellowship and the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars. He received a BA in economics-mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018 - 19
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- Professor
- Professor in the Department of Health Policy
- Professor of Health Policy and Management and Economist at UCLA Center for Health Advancement
Frederick J. Zimmerman is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is an economist with a background in institutional and behavioral economics. His research illuminates the intersection of economics and the determinants of health. Dr. Zimmerman also teaches and conducts research in ethical aspects of public health policy. Dr. Zimmerman has a particular interest in how economic structure-including poverty and inequality-influence population health. Research topics have included the effects of media on child health; the effects of food marketing on obesity; and the opportunity costs of medical spending; and the political economy of health and social policy. He has integrated economic, sociological, and psychological perspectives of behavior into a multi-level theory that unifies both individual and population-level determinants of health.
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2024
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- Senior Data Architect, UC Berkeley
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCLA, 2024
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, 2024
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017 - 2018
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- Associate Professor of Economics at University of California - Santa Barbara
Heather Royer is an associate professor of economics at University of California-Santa Barbara.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
Hemal Kanzaria, MD, MSc, is the Department of Care Coordination (DoCC) Medical Director at Zuckerberg...
Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair...
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- Research Associate, UC Berkeley
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2021
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Davis, 2024
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- Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
- Executive Director, UCLA
- Founding Executive Director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA
Janey Rountree is the founding Executive Director of the California Policy Lab at UCLA. Prior to...
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- Professor of Demography at University of California
Jenna Nobles is a Professor of Demography at University of California, Berkeley. She studies the...
Jennie E. Brand is a Professor of Sociology and Statistics, and is also the Director of the California...
Jennifer Ahern, PhD MPH, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Chancellor's Professor of Public...
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- Senior Research Manager, UC Berkeley
Jennifer Skeem is the Mack Distinguished Professor of Social Welfare, Professor of Public Policy,...
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- Member of the LEADERSHIP Team
- Faculty Director, UC Berkeley
- Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California
Jesse Rothstein is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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- Research Director, the People Lab
Jessica Lasky-Fink is the Research Director at The People Lab. Much of her research focuses on using...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017
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- Senior Data Analyst, UCLA
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Assistant Professor of Policy at the University of Pennsylvania
Jisung Park is an Assistant Professor of Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments...
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- Research Director, UC Berkeley
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019 - 2020
Jonathan Kolstad is an Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at Berkeley Haas and...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2023 - 2024
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- Research Manager, UCLA
- Summer Fellow, UCB, 2020
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- Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2023
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- Chairman of the Labor Center at IRLE
Ken Jacobs is the Chair of the Labor Center at IRLE, where he has been a Labor Specialist since...
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019
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- Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy
- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017 - 2019
Krista Ruffini is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University....
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- Data Privacy Assistant, UCLA, 2021 - 2024
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019 - 20
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Communications and Design Intern, UCB, 2024
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017
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- Research Associate, UC Berkeley
Margot Kushel, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2019
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA 2021 - 2022
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- Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017 - 2021
Matt Unrath is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy....
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017 - 2018
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
Meredith Phillips is currently cooperating with the Los Angeles Unified School District on a range...
Mia Bird is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley....
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2020
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- Professor of Economics and Co - Chair of the Center
Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics...
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Research Manager, UC Berkeley
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Professor of Political Science
Henry Brady is the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2021 - 2022
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2020
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2017 - 2018
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- Research Fellow, UCB, 2019
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- Summer Fellow, UCLA, 2018
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- Communications Intern, UCB, 2021 - 2022
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- Research Manager, UC Berkeley
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
Norweeta Milburn is a Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences...
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- Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2018
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2018 - 2020
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- Director of Data Partnerships and Compliance, UCLA
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- Senior Data Analyst, UCLA
Philippe Bourgois is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2019
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- Summer Research Assistant, UCLA, 2021
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2023
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- Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows
Rediet Abebe is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow....
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- First Director of the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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- Predoctoral Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
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- Economist and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California
- Professor of Public Policy, Los Angeles
Robert Fairlie is an Economist and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include entrepreneurship, education, inequality, information technology, labor economics, and immigration. His research projects explore questions around what causes racial inequality, whether technology helps students, whether there have been disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on small businesses and unemployment, and how many jobs entrepreneurs create. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, and Australian National University. He has received funding for his research from numerous government agencies and foundations. He has testified to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Treasury, and the California State Assembly regarding the findings from his research, and received a joint resolution from the California Legislature.
Rucker Johnson is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public...
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- Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2017
Sara Goldrick-Rab is author of the award-winning book Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial...
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- Summer Fellow, UCLA, 2018
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2020
- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2019 - 2021
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- Data Analyst, UC Berkeley
Sarah Rebers is the Joseph A. Pechman Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in...
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2019 - 2020
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- Director of Communications and Outreach, UC Berkeley
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UC Riverside, 2024
Sidra Goldman-Mellor, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of California,...
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2021
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- Research Assistant, UCB, 2018 - 2020
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2021 - 2024
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCB, 2021 - 2024
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- Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley
Steven Raphael is Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the economics...
Supreet Kaur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley.
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCB, 2022
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- Communications Intern, UCLA, 2021 - 2022
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- Research Associate, UC Berkeley
Till von Wachter is Professor of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles, Faculty...
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2018
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- Summer Institute Research Fellow, UCSD, 2024
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- Communications and Design Intern, UCB, 2023
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- Graduate Research Fellow, UCLA, 2020 - 2022
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- Research Fellow, UCLA, 2020 - 2021
Wes Yin is cooperating with Covered California to study the pattern of participation of disadvantaged...
Yotam Shem-Tov is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. His research primarily focuses on...
Yu-Ling Chang is an Assistant Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley....