Directory

Andy Kim

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Biostatistics, UC Berkeley

As a graduate student in Biostatistics, I applied to CRELS to consider the ways in which statistical application to public health data is analogous and complementary to the ways we can consider data regarding criminal justice. For instance, one way I find statistics to be a powerful tool is how it can elucidate and ways that assumptions have been systematically built and enforced through erroneous, manipulative, and/or insidious ways of interpreting and communicating data.

As I enter the 4th year of my program, I've been studying methods to observe and describe data that don't...

Aldazia Green

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow, Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare

Aldazia Green is a PhD student at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her research interest centers on investigating the interactive effects of cognitive behavioral treatments and medications on psychiatric symptoms and the reduction of criminal behavior among justice-involved communities with severe mental illness. Through her commitment to both research and practice, she has gained experience in policy advocacy, program implementation, and computational analysis. As an emerging quantitative and critical scholar, Aldazia strives to improve mental health treatment and criminal justice...

Liza Lutzker

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

Liza Lutzker is an Epidemiology PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how traffic safety outcomes and disparities in the US are affected by current and historical institutions, policies and practices which embed biases against poor people or racially minoritized groups. Her current project examines the efficacy of traditional police traffic enforcement on preventing fatal and severe traffic collisions. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Liza worked broadly in the field of environmental and occupational epidemiology at the Massachusetts and California...

Kylee Hoffman

Berkeley Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology, Demography, UC Berkeley

Kylee Hoffman is a PhD student in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley. Her research broadly focuses on neighborhood change, socioeconomic and historical causes of health inequality, and the effects of gentrification and displacement. One of her current projects looks at air pollution exposure differentials among internal migrants in the US across racial and socioeconomic groups. Another project focuses on cohort imprinting effects in seasonal influenza mortality. In future research, she is interested in leveraging computational methods to capture complex demographic trends in large-...

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...

Omair Gill

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Omair is a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His current research focuses on the impacts of California’s Three-Strikes law and free prison communications. Prior to starting his PhD, Omair was a research associate at the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley, where he worked on projects related to prison sentencing and criminal law. Omair holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UC Davis.

Sequoia Rose Andrade

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Statistics, UC Berkeley

Sequoia is a PhD student in the statistics department at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Berkeley, she worked as a Research Engineer contractor at NASA and focused on wildfire safety related research. She holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from Santa Clara University, M.S. in statistical data science from San Francisco State University, and is an awardee of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is passionate about applying computational methods to complex and impactful real-world problems, with a focus on social good applications.

Peter Forberg

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Sociology, UC Berkeley

Peter Forberg is a PhD student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the connections between digital technology, the administrative state, and political movements. In particular, he is interested in how political actors are using technology to reshape contemporary knowledge and enact their political visions. Prior to entering graduate school, Peter conducted independent research on the political conspiracy group QAnon. In future research, he hopes to combine the methods of computational data science with those of qualitative content analysis and participant observation....

Arisa Sadeghpour

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.

Taylor Galdi

Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Fellow
Berkeley Law School, UC Berkeley

Taylor Galdi is a JD/PhD student in Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program. Her research focuses on courts, social movements and social change, and the legal profession. Prior to starting her PhD, Taylor worked as a Mitigation Specialist at the Center for Community Alternatives and as a Lab Manager at the University of Michigan Law School. Taylor holds an MFA in Literary Nonfiction Writing from Eastern Washington University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan.