Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow, Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley
Ángel Mendiola Ross is a PhD candidate in sociology with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. He conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, housing, and policing. Their current project examines land use policies and law enforcement practices in newer, fast-growing suburbs to better understand contemporary drivers of segregation in the post-civil rights era. Their past work empirically tested evidence of racial threat and renter threat in California suburbs with a focus on communities on the receiving end of gentrification and...
Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Statistics, UC Berkeley
Arisa Sadeghpour is a third-year PhD student in Statistics advised by Dr. Erin Hartman. She is interested in developing statistical methods, specifically in causal inference, for social science applications. Previously, she graduated from Rice University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics and was a fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Saron Goitom is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. Her current research interests include contextualizing the way in which stressful life events during pregnancy influence their children's internalizing behaviors in early childhood, by examining the influence of larger structural factors like poverty, trauma, racism and discrimination. In her previous work as a programmer analyst, she was involved in evaluating the effectiveness of safety-net programs in reducing acute care utilization and increasing long-term linkage to primary care,...
Alex Schulte is a Health Policy PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the role of social and organizational networks in improving equitable access to healthcare, in particular sexual and reproductive healthcare. Alex is interested in leveraging computational social science methods, such as causal inference and machine learning, to address complex research questions with the goal of improving health equity. Prior to starting her PhD, Alex led sexual and reproductive health programming at the Deloitte Health Equity Institute in New York City. She...
Sofia is an MSW/PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare studying under Dr. Jill Duerr Berrick. Her research interests include analyzing front line child welfare decision making and applying econometrics tools to practice issues in the field.The CSSTP fellowship will support development of text analysis and modeling skills, in addition to training in leading data science techniques.Sofia received her BA in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019. Prior to entering graduate school, Sofia was an assistant budget analyst at...
Solis Winters is a PhD student in Health Policy, with a specialization in Population Health and Data Science, at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on improving health and nutrition during the first 1000 days of life, from pregnancy through age two. She is especially interested in using methods from causal inference to better understand what types of community-based interventions can improve birth outcomes and child malnutrition in low-income communities. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, where she researched mechanisms...