Graduate Fellows

Sofia Guo

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

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...

Stephanie Veazie

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Epidemiology, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Stephanie Veazie is an Epidemiology PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Her general research interests are understanding how social determinants of health drive disparities in maternal, child and adolescent health as well as mental health. She is currently researching trends in the proportion of adolescents who experienced adverse life events such as parental job loss and death of a family member before vs. after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether rates varied by racial/ethnic group and socioeconomic status. She also plans to examine how social adversity...

Solis Winters

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Health Policy, Public Health, UC Berkeley

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...