Grad Student - ISSI

Alexander Adia is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Population and Data Science Track). Alexander's research works towards the achievement of health equity and the addressing of health disparities, with a focus on identifying how market and policy changes can (intentionally or unintentionally) influence such outcomes. His existing projects include analyses on medical debt, provider market consolidation and its impacts on patients, and quality of care for Medicaid patients. His work prior to his doctoral program included research on data disaggregation for Asian Americans, Filipinx...

Jane (Mango) Angar is pursuing her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political violence and disability politics, focusing on how disability influences state consolidation, citizenship, and economic marginalization in former British colonies. Her dissertation project aims to delve into the history and institutionalization of disability rights movements within these regions, particularly in Africa. The project is based on interviews with disability rights activists and archival research in Zambia, Kenya,...

Jake Barton is a former high school science teacher and a PhD Candidate at the Berkeley School of Education. He works with K-12 teachers and students throughout the East Bay, seeking to support their engagement with environmental and climate justice. As part of this work, he has helped facilitate an ongoing professional development program for teachers called OTACA (Oakland Teachers Advancing Climate Action) for the past several years. His dissertation is focused on this program and a design-based collaboration with several teachers and the Lawrence Hall of Science, through which students...

Jacqueline Brown (she/her) is a PhD student in the Sociology department at University of California, Berkeley. She is a mixed-methodologist who is interested in access to higher education, organizational change, and socioeconomic mobility. Her research primarily uses quantitative, computational, and interview methods. She is currently working on a longitudinal analysis of college admissions policies related to income and class background and a study of invisible pedagogies among teachers in New York City. Additionally, she is a graduate student researcher on a project that evaluates a data...