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We are the cure: How to help our democracy recover from the pandemic

Published in Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, 2020

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T. (2020). We are the cure: How to help our democracy recover from the pandemic. Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/university-wide-initiatives/this-civic-moment/thiscivicmomentseries/thiscivicmoment-taylor-brown/.
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CLT Policy Playbook

Published in Center for Social Development, 2021

Recommended citation: Bandaru, S., Brown, C. T., Goldstein, E., Serwin, A., & Taylor P. (2021). CLT Policy Playbook. Center for Social Development.

Widowhood and mental health issues: Predictors of anxiety, depression, and PTSD among those who have been widowed

Published in Illness, Crisis & Loss, 2021

This study examines the relationship between three common mental health disorders—anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder—in the first year of spousal bereavement and a myriad of social factors—including the security of health insurance and the presence of children at home—among those who have been widowed. We analyzed a novel survey of 503 widows who had participated in the Modern Widows’ Club Widows Empowerment Event. We then used logistic regression to investigate the relationship between these variables, discovering nuance between them. Our findings further elucidate the need for health and mental health providers to be attuned to the unique psychosocial needs of widows, especially among the first year of widowhood.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., & Harrold, J. (2021). Widowhood and mental health issues: Predictors of anxiety, depression, and PTSD among those who have been widowed. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373211054189.
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New opportunities from the Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband to connect your community to the internet

Published in CTC Technology & Energy, 2021

Recommended citation: Rivkin-Fish, Z., Fichman, B., & Brown, C. T. (2021, Jul. 8). New opportunities from the Maryland Office of Statewide Broadband to connect your community to the internet. CTC Technology & Energy, https://www.ctcnet.us/blog/new-opportunities-from-the-maryland-office-of-statewide-broadband-to-connect-your-community-to-the-internet/.
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The politics of child welfare: Are child welfare policies, budgets and functioning a red/blue issue?

Published in Children and Youth Services Review, 2022

Child Protective Services (CPS) are a politically contentious area of practice and policy. While this is well known, no attempts have been made to understand differences in state level CPS systems as a function of state political orientation. We explore the bivariate and limited multivariate relationships between state political orientation (governorships, legislature and public voting patterns), CPS funding, the adoption of specific policies (differential response, drug policy, intimate partner violence policy, centralization and mandated reporting), system inputs (referral rate, percentage of reports from mandated sources, report types), and system outputs (percent screened in, percent substantiated and percent placed). We also explore the degree to which other state characteristics (wealth, rurality) are related to these outcomes. We find that political orientation has few associations with any of our dependent measures, and when present, such associations could plausibly related to state income and rurality measures, which did have consistent relationships to CPS functioning. Our approach found little indication that “Red” and “Blue” states differ markedly with regard to their CPS systems, and we include a series of suggestions for future research. We discuss the potential policy and practice implications of our findings.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., Ocampa, M. G., Drake, B. (2022). The politics of child welfare: Are child welfare policies, budgets and functioning a red/blue issue? Children and Youth Services Review, 132, 106282. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106282.
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Contextualization of transformative civic education

Published in Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies, 2023

Recommended citation: White, R., Brown, C. T., Pevits, A., & Martin, J. (2023). Contextualization of transformative civic education. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (eds.). Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, Michigan.

Civic education and social justice: Moving toward a pedagogy of community organizing and community-based participatory methods

Published in Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies, 2023

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., White, R., Pevits, A., Martin, J. (2023). Civic education and social justice: Moving toward a pedagogy of community organizing and community-based participatory methods. In Hoggan-Kloubert, T., Mabrey III, P. E., & Hoggan, C. (eds.). Transformative Civic Education in Democratic Societies. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, Michigan.

What is environmental justice?

Published in Social Justice, 2024

Recommended citation: Hamilton, G., & Brown, C. T. (in press). What is environmental justice? In Vandergrift, K. Social Justice. Solana Beach: Cognella.

Which side (of the balance sheet) are you on? Household financial resources and participation in the 2020 protests

Published in The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2024

The summer of 2020 was marked by widespread protests. Though research has often examined the predictors of protest participation, there exists little work examining the relationship between different types of wealth and protesting. Drawing on resource-based theories of protest participation and asset-based theories of civic engagement, we constructed regression models disentangling relationships between income, liquid assets, investment assets, homeownership, and protesting. Using a national survey administered during the protests, we find that liquid assets are negatively associated, homeownership is positively associated, and investment assets exhibit a non-linear association with protesting. These relationships hold when controlling for income, demographics, and ideology, but largely disappear when controlling for measures of economic vulnerability. These results are consistent across different protest types. Our work speaks to the role of protests as a means of political participation for economically marginalized groups and contributes to our knowledge of the intersection between economic indicators and political behaviors. Further, this work highlights how individual and contextual factors influence political behavior in varied ways, which has implications for protest organizers, civic engagement promoters, as well as policies aimed at protecting the right to protest.

Recommended citation: Miller, S., Roll, S., Brown, C. T., Brugger, L., & Grinstein-Weiss, M. (2024). Which side (of the balance sheet) are you on? Household financial resources and participation in the 2020 protests. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 50(4). https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.4671.
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The data science discovery program: A case for data science consulting in higher education

Published in Stat, 2024

As one of the largest data science research incubator initiatives in the country, the University of California, Berkeley’s Data Science Discovery Program serves as a case study for a scalable and sustainable model of data science consulting in higher education. This case contributes to the broader literature on data science consulting in higher education by analysing the programme’s development, institutional influences; staffing and structural model; and defining features, which may prove instructive to similar programmes at other institutions. The programme is characterised by a unique structure of undergraduate consultations led by graduate student mentorship and governance; a streamlined, multidepartmental model that facilitates scalability and sustainability; and diverse modes for undergraduate consulting—including one-on-one ad-hoc data science consultations, extended data science project development and management, peer mentorship and data science workshop instruction. This case demonstrates that universities may be able to initiate a low-stakes, small-scale data science consulting initiative and then progressively scale up the project in collaboration with multiple departments and organisations across campus.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., Mehta, M., Ryali, M., Dong, C., Shadfar, I., Dominquez Davalos, J., Culich, A., & Suen, A. (2024). The data science discovery program: A case for data science consulting in higher education. Stat, 13(2). http://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.677.
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Limitations of ecomodernist climate change mitigation: The case of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the (un)just transition

Published in Critical Social Policy, 2024

The US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 marks a monumental shift toward mitigating climate change and transitioning to a clean energy society. With disproportionate, adverse impacts of climate change on marginalized communities, we utilize a critical environmental justice framework to investigate how the policy structure may deepen social inequalities. While the climate policy invests in clean energy and includes provisions for marginalized communities, our critical analysis finds embedded, conventional power imbalances ceded to corporations and a failure to acknowledge environmental racism. As a result, benefits are far from equitably distributed to communities that bear class, racial, and environmental burdens. We specify policy revisions of narrowing low-income eligibility, incorporating race in provisional criteria, and expanding clean energy investments to environmental justice locations. While our proposed reforms may create a more equitable response, we argue US climate policy’s shortcomings are endemic to its ecomodernist approach, limiting the possibility of a just transition.

Recommended citation: Grounder, B., & Brown, C. T. (2024). Limitations of ecomodernist climate change mitigation: The case of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the (un)just transition. Critical Social Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183241281349..
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Comparative social policy

Published in Encyclopedia of Social Work, 2024

Comparative social welfare or comparative social policy may be defined as the comparative study of welfare states, policies, and programs. Social workers have been instrumental in the development of the field of comparative social welfare and continue to make significant contributions to its international knowledge and practice base. With roots in Europe and the United States in the 1960s, comparative social welfare research evolved from descriptive case studies of welfare programs to causal and quantitative studies, all aimed at understanding and improving domestic social welfare policy through comparison with other nations. The 1990s marked a significant increase in the number of studies on comparative social welfare motivated largely by interest from the European Union, though the field has benefited from contributions by a global community of scholars since then. Although the field continues to evolve, comparative social welfare can roughly be split between theoretical studies of welfare state development and empirical studies of welfare policies, programs, and outcomes. Studies in comparative social welfare can be classified by their method of comparison, nature of comparison, and level of comparison.

Recommended citation: Gilbert, N. & Brown, C. T. (2024). Comparative social policy. Encyclopedia of Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.879.
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Welfare regime typologies: The six worlds of social inclusion.

Published in Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 2024

This study bridges the study of social inclusion with welfare regime theory. By linking social inclusion with welfare regimes, we establish a novel analytical framework for assessing global trends and national divergences in social inclusion based on a multidimensional view of the concept. While scholars have developed typologies for social inclusion and welfare regimes independent of each other, limited insights exist on how social inclusion relates to welfare regime typologies. We develop a social inclusion index for 225 countries using principal component analysis with 10 measures of social inclusion from the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Indicators Database. We then employ clustering algorithms to inductively group countries based on the index. We find six “worlds” of social inclusion based on the index and other social factors – the Low, Mid, and High Social Inclusion regimes and the Low, Mid, and High Social Exclusion regimes.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., & Ben Brik, A. (in press). Welfare regime typologies: The six worlds of social inclusion. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.
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Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net

Published in Journal of Social Policy, 2024

As climate change progresses, natural hazards are projected to continue to increase in frequency and intensity, posing a new form of social risk, implicating both the welfare and environmental state and raising the salience of ecosocial policy as a mechanism to attend to the distributional effects of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study posits a novel conceptual framework for ecosocial policy and offers the US ecosocial safety net as a case analysis. While we conceptualise disaster relief policy as a mode of the environmental state, it includes unique ecosocial policies that constitute the backbone of the US ecosocial safety net. This study describes and compares the developmental and functional synergies between the US welfare and environmental state manifested in the form of an ecosocial safety net by explicating the Individual Assistance Program and the National Flood Insurance Program. Our findings reveal synergies between US disaster relief and welfare, including parallel developmental trends, philosophies of deserving/undeserving, functions of racial capitalism and relationships with economic growth. This study and its conceptual framework of ecosocial policy offer a groundwork for the study of ecosocial policy in other contexts.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., & Chang, Y. L. (2024). Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the U.S. ecosocial safety net. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000126.
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Climate policy principles for an equitable, post-growth society

Published in Energy Research and Social Science, 2024

Global politics addressing climate change emphasize achieving just transitions toward sustainable societies. Climate policies, such as the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and European Green Deal can be marred by measures incentivizing carbon-emitting activities that conflict with their own social equity provisions. Post-growth frameworks offer an alternative paradigm for new policies to make significant strides toward climate justice and sustainable societies

Recommended citation: Grounder, B., Brown, C. T., & Tan, K., P., H. (under review). Climate policy principles for an equitable, post-growth society. Energy Research and Social Science.

Saudi’s social protection and labor market responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking policies extend social protection to migrant workers to achieve universal coverage in a post-COVID era

Published in Social Policy & Society, 2024

Ben Brik, A. & Brown, C. T. (R&R). Saudi’s social protection and labor market responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking policies extend social protection to migrant workers to achieve universal coverage in a post-COVID era. Social Policy & Society.

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A narrative review of conceptualization and measurement of social inclusion: Directions for conceptual clarity

Published in Social Policy & Society., 2024

We apply a synthesis review to revisit the concept, measurement, and operationalization of social inclusion and exclusion in the context of comparative social policy, integrating the vast literature on the concepts, with the aim of elucidating a clearer understanding of the concepts for use by scholars and policymakers around the planet. In turn, we outline the conceptual development of the concepts, how they have been operationalized through social policy, and how they have been measured at the national and individual levels. Through our review, we identify limitations to extant conceptualization and measurement approaches that emphasize the concepts’ multidimensional, multilevel, dynamic, and relational essence and highlight its connection to related concepts like social capital, social integration, and social citizenship.

Recommended citation: Ben Brik, A. & Brown, C. T. (R&R). A narrative review of conceptualization and measurement of social inclusion: Directions for conceptual clarity. Social Policy & Society.

Social protection and labor market responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Arab Gulf countries: An AI-driven analysis through welfare regime and punctuated equilibrium lenses

Published in Social Policy & Society, 2024

This paper analyses social protection and labor market responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in six Arab Gulf countries: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and United Arab Emirates. Through the lens of welfare regime theory and punctuated equilibrium theory, it includes a comprehensive set of social protection and labor market measures using an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted data extraction process with deep natural language processing (NLP) model and other data collected from a variety of sources. A total of 111 social protection measures were implemented by Gulf nations during the pandemic. Social assistance and labor market policies were the most prevalent responses in the region. Household income support in the forms of exemptions, deferrals, waivers for utility payments, rent support and financial obligations were the most prevalent social assistance instrument, while labor regulatory flexibility were the most widely used labor market policies. The pandemic highlighted systemic gaps in social protection systems and has exposed and magnified some of the critical social protection challenges in the region. Nevertheless, labor supply measures in terms of unemployment benefits and wage subsidies programs have been geared towards only benefiting citizens, while migrant workers have been given limited financial support. Innovative social protection systems and policy reforms, in line with international human rights and international labor standards, including a universal safety net should be pursued.

Recommended citation: Ben Brik, A. & Brown, C. T. (R&R). Social protection and labor market responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Arab Gulf countries: An AI-driven analysis through welfare regime and punctuated equilibrium lenses. Social Policy & Society.

Global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy: A systematic review and research agenda

Published in Social Policy & Society, 2024

As pressures build, this study can serve as a guidepost for scholars and policymakers to learn from global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy. Our systematic review of global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy points to the general expansion and retrenchment of social inclusion policy amid increasing social exclusion associated with trends such as globalization and neoliberalism. In the absence of recent, detailed case descriptions of social inclusion policy at the national level, we call for a renewed scholarly focus on case studies of social inclusion policy. We also discuss the likelihood that persistent climate change, migration, ageing populations, and technological innovations are poised to dramatically influence global social inclusion and suggest that future research should seek to understand the relationship between these developments and social inclusion. As we look to the future and the growing needs of excluded populations, we aim to use this study to learn from and build on these global trends to promote the inclusion of excluded groups around the world.

Recommended citation: Ben Brik, A. & Brown, C. T. (R&R). Global trends in social inclusion and social inclusion policy: A systematic review and research agenda. Social Policy & Society.

Can policy arrangements in rentier states evolve? Analysing the shift from étatism to pluralism in social policy

Published in Social Policy & Society, 2024

This study investigates the social policy arrangement in rentier states, focusing on the potential shift from centralised, étatist governance toward more liberal-pluralist or neo-corporatist structures. Using the case study of the social security system in Qatar, the hypothesis suggests that globalisation, economic diversification, and increasing demands for broader stakeholder engagement might facilitate this transformation. However, the findings reveal that social policy arrangements remain predominantly étatist, with the state retaining centralised control over discourse, actors, resources, and rules. Although elements of pluralism—such as civil society and international actor involvement—are emerging, their influence remains limited. This research underscores the resilience of étatist structures in rentier states, where global governance norms are selectively incorporated without fundamentally altering centralised governance. The case study reflects gradual changes driven by modernisation and external pressures but suggests no immediate shift in the overall policy framework.

Recommended citation: Ben Brik, A., & Brown, C. T. (under review). Can policy arrangements in rentier states evolve? Analysing the shift from étatism to pluralism in social policy. Social Policy & Society.

Contradictions of the ecowelfare state: The state and its construction of the human and nature

Published in , 2024

This paper explores the contradictions inherent in the (eco)welfare state, focusing on its dual role as a mechanism of capitalist crisis management and as an emergent site for addressing inequality and climate change. Rooted in Marxist and eco-critical traditions, it argues that inequality and climate change are interconnected byproducts of capitalist relations, which exploit both human labor and natural resources. These structural contradictions necessitate state intervention, exemplified by the welfare and ecowelfare states, which aim to regulate labor and the human-nature metabolism. Building on Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe’s critical theory of the state and welfare state, this paper proposes an additional function—ecoregulation—to Offe’s “magic triangle” of the state, capitalism, and the political system that builds on the previous theorization of a fourth axis to the triangle, the “ecological system”. It identifies three central contradictions resulting from this reformulation in ecowelfare: the construction of “human” and “nature” that undermines state legitimacy, growth-oriented policies that perpetuate ecological degradation, and national-scale interventions that inadequately address planetary crises. The first contradiction relating to ecowelfare’s construction of the “human” and “nature” is explicated, explicating ecowelfare’s threat to state legitimacy and subsequent liberatory potential.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T. (working). Contradictions of the ecowelfare state: The state and its construction of the human and nature.

Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs.

Published in , 2024

This study investigates inequities in the US ecosocial safety net, specifically, FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP), which aids households impacted by natural hazards. Using county-level data from 2009 to 2022, the study models the relationship between IHP expenditures per recipient and county-level demographic and socioeconomic factors. This research extends prior work by accounting for time dependence, extending the extant study time frame, including hazards that both did and did not receive IHP funding, and conducting subgroup analysis by hazard type. The results reveal that counties with larger Black and older populations receive less funding per recipient, while those with higher poverty rates receive more. These disparities persist across IHP’s subprograms, Housing Assistance and Other Needs Assistance. Further analysis by hazard type (floods, hurricanes, severe storms) indicates that aid distribution varies based on the nature of the hazard. The findings suggest that the US ecosocial safety net may inherit inequities found in the US welfare state. The study calls for policy reforms to create a more equitable distribution of aid, with future research needed to explore the causes of these disparities and their individual-level impacts.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., Nepomnyashcy, L., Patel, A. S. (working). Is the U.S. ecosocial safety net inequitable?: Comparing the Individuals and Households and National Flood Insurance programs.

New politics of climate change: From a regulatory state to a welfare state.

Published in , 2024

How do social welfare structures influence adaptation readiness across Global South countries? This exploratory paper examines whether countries with universalistic social welfare policies are associated with higher readiness for climate adaptation. Social welfare interventions seek to protect citizens from market-induced systemic risks. Climate adaptation also seeks to protect citizens from systemic risks from climate disruptions, both the slow onset and more dramatic events such as hurricanes and floods. Using a panel of 76 Global South countries for the period 1995-2020, we find that more universalistic welfare states are associated with higher preparedness for climate adaptation, even after controlling for social welfare expenditures, climate vulnerability, wealth, and levels of democracy. Moreover, we find that the share of renewables in energy (a proxy for climate mitigation) is not associated with adaptation readiness, suggesting that adaptation and mitigation do not crowd out each other.

Recommended citation: Brown, C. T., Prakesh, A., Dolsak, N. (working). New politics of climate change: From a regulatory state to a welfare state.

Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California.

Published in , 2024

Background and Research Questions The welfare-to-work (WTW) program, also known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), encountered unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis disproportionately impacted low-income families, especially single mothers of color, by exacerbating economic instability and disrupting the work-caregiving arrangement. This study analyzes welfare sanctions and employment outcomes of California’s WTW system through a racial equity lens. It addresses these questions: How did welfare sanction and employment outcomes vary by race/ethnicity and pandemic status at the state and county levels? To what extent were county-level WTW provisions associated with employment outcomes, and did these associations vary by race/ethnic group?

Recommended citation: Chang, Y. L., Brown, C. T., Keh, M. (working). Uncovering racial disparities in local welfare-to-work program responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in California.

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Seminar

Field Liason, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2021

SWK 4510 - Review of latest developments in social work; analysis of problems encountered in field placement; development of self-awareness and individual worker style.

Field Placement

Field Liason, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2021

SWK 4520 - Placement in a social work agency for 420 hours of supervised field practice.

Social Work Research

Adjunct Professor, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2021

SOC 3300 - Study of the research process and its applications in generalist social work practice. Conceptual foundation for research. Quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry, design, data collection and analysis. Ethical and human diversity issues in research.

General Sociology

Adjunct Professor, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2021

SOC 2030 - A broad perspective of the nature of society and its problems in terms of social institutions, forces, and changes. Cultural diversity and understanding of group interaction in our multi-ethnic society.

General Sociology

Adjunct Professor, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2022

SOC 2030 - A broad perspective of the nature of society and its problems in terms of social institutions, forces, and changes. Cultural diversity and understanding of group interaction in our multi-ethnic society.

Seminar

Field Liason, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2022

SWK 4510 - Review of latest developments in social work; analysis of problems encountered in field placement; development of self-awareness and individual worker style.

Field Placement

Field Liason, Undergraduate Course, Harding University, School of Social Work, 2022

SWK 4520 - Placement in a social work agency for 420 hours of supervised field practice.

Poverty and Economic Justice

Graduate Student Instructor, Undergraduate Course, University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, 2023

SOCWEL 116 - Course examines current problems and issues in the field of social welfare.

Seminar in Social Welfare Research

Graduate Student Instructor, Graduate Course, University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, 2024

SOCWEL 282B - This course provides an overview on techniques for and challenges in program evaluation. Students will develop the critical skills necessary to assess the quality of evaluation research projects, to apply technical evaluation skills in professional practice, and to develop evaluation plans for a variety of programs. Students will apply the knowledge of research methods acquired through the MSW program to develop a program evaluation plan. Special attention will be paid to participatory, collaborative and equitable evaluation approaches, as well as qualitative methods. Through this course, each student will develop a program evaluation plan for a program of their choice.

Institutional Review Board Fundamentals

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

This course will walk you through the process of getting IRB approval for your project.

R Fundamentals

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

This interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming in R for people with little or no previous programming experience. It covers the basics of using RStudio, creating variables, working with data frames, and starting to analyse your data using summary statistics and data visualization.

Python Fundamentals

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

This six-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience, with a focus on data science application. In Parts 1-3, we cover the basics of Python and Jupyter, variables and data types, and a gentle introduction to data analysis in Pandas. In Parts 4-6, we cover loops and conditionals, creating your own functions, analysis and visualization in Pandas, and the workflow of a data science project.

Python Data Wrangling

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

In this workshop, we provide an introduction to data wrangling with Python. We will do so largely with the pandas package, which provides a rich set of tools to manipulate and interact with data frames, the most common data structure used when analyzing tabular data. We’ll learn how to manipulate, index, merge, group, and plot data frames using pandas functions.

Python Web Scraping

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

In this workshop, we cover how to scrape data from the web using Python. Web scraping involves downloading a webpage’s source code and sifting through the material to extract desired data.

Machine Learning in Python

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

In this workshop, we provide an introduction to machine learning in Python. First, we’ll cover some machine learning basics, including its foundational principles. Then, we’ll dive into code, understanding how to perform regression, regularization, preprocessing, and classification. There are additional components of the workshop which explore building machine learning pipelines and unsupervised learning. We’ll demonstrate how to perform these tasks using scikit-learn, the main package used for machine learning in Python.

Python Fundamentals

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

This six-part interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience, with a focus on data science application. In Parts 1-3, we cover the basics of Python and Jupyter, variables and data types, and a gentle introduction to data analysis in Pandas. In Parts 4-6, we cover loops and conditionals, creating your own functions, analysis and visualization in Pandas, and the workflow of a data science project.

Python Data Wrangling

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

In this workshop, we provide an introduction to data wrangling with Python. We will do so largely with the pandas package, which provides a rich set of tools to manipulate and interact with data frames, the most common data structure used when analyzing tabular data. We’ll learn how to manipulate, index, merge, group, and plot data frames using pandas functions.

Python Data Visualization

Instructor, Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Social Sciences Data Laboratory, 2024

In this workshop, we provide an introduction to data visualization with Python. First, we’ll cover some basics of visualization theory. Then, we’ll explore how to plot data in Python using the matplotlib and seaborn packages.

Social Welfare Policy

Graduate Student Instructor, Undergraduate Course, University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, 2025

SOCWEL 112 - Analysis of social welfare policies and programs including public assistance, social insurance, social services, and health and mental health.