Giovanni Righi’s research is focused on understanding the pattern of racial income inequality across the United States. This work leverages the LEHD in the FSRDC to analyze how firm
wage premiums and local labor market racial segregation on racial income inequality contribute to variation in income across racial groups.
Next year, Giovanni will be affiliated with the UW School of Public Health and the Veterans’ Affairs Administration as a Health Services Research and Development Postdoctoral Scholar. He will use
that position to measure the impact of the various programs that have been so effective in dramatically reducing Veteran homelessness in the last decade. After that, he plans to pursue an
MD, and with some luck, do so at the UW.
Ethan Raker is a social demographer specializing in disasters. His research uses quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Currently, he is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He joined the department in July 2021 after completing a PhD in sociology at Harvard University.
Ethan’s research agenda focuses on socio-spatial inequality, disasters, climate change, health, and neighbourhoods. He uses primarily quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Some of his recent work appears in Demography, PNAS, Social Forces, and Socius, among other outlets.
Ethan earned his BA in sociology at Columbia, and an AM and PhD in sociology at Harvard, under the supervision of Mary C. Waters. At UBC, he teaches courses on the sociology of health and the demography of disasters. His work has been generously supported by a Malcolm H. Wiener PhD scholarship in poverty and justice at the Harvard Kennedy School and by a Wall scholar faculty fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
Barbara Talkington is an Evaluation and Analytics Coordinator at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA). She leads data collection and analysis for critical initiatives. For instance, her and her team have been working with CSDE’s Dr. Zack Almquist on the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, applying Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) methodology to conduct the unsheltered PIT. In addition to the
PIT, she is co-lead of KCRHA’s Community-Based Participatory Research division where they are mentoring, developing curriculum and training, and embedding members of the community who have
lived-expertise in homelessness into our research practices. She has also successfully managed a Data Management Team, supporting the work of transitioning individuals into permanent housing and
enhancing ongoing homeless response efforts in King County. Her current role has equipped her with indisposable skills and showcases my continual dedication as a population research practitioner.
In addition to her present position at the KCRHA and collaboration with CSDE faculty, she has additional experience with CSDE partnership projects. Previously, she worked as a Research Analyst with Dr. Martin from the Evans School studying monetary sanctions that resulted in “Pay or Display: Monetary Sanctions and the Performance of Accountability and Procedural Integrity in New York and Illinois Courts(2022)” being published by RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Outside of projects related to CSDE, she has nearly a decade of work as a research practitioner and is offering extensive experience in data analysis and research to current and future collaborations. Her experience encompasses roles using data analysis and research to better our region within higher education institutions, nonprofits, and government organizations. This includes her work as a Research Analyst evaluating Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance, as an independent research consultant using research to create open access tools for non-profits, and as a research consultant studying K12 education and the impacts of COVID-19 on our education systems.
Claire Guilmette is a data-driven management professional focused on solving problems for social sector organizations. Her values of deliberate thought and action, empathy, and social justice guide her career and life. Her mission is to guide change makers in using data strategically and wholeheartedly to enhance their impact and improve lives.
Highly skilled evaluator and data practitioner with a decade of experience leading and contributing to data and research projects for the public good. Her mission is to provide innovative data-driven solutions to
end homelessness and improve lives.
As a social demographer, Laura Lindberg’s research career has focused on measuring trends, determinants, and consequences of sexual and reproductive health of the US population. After completing nearly two decades as a Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, she is now a Professor of Global-Urban Health at Rutgers School of Public Health, directing a new concentration in sexual and reproductive health and equity. She has been Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-I on nine NIH grants and numerous other research grants related to sexual and reproductive health.
Laura’s research spans a range of sexual and reproductive health topics. She has conducted influential policy-related research with work investigating contraception, abortion, and sex education as well as the role of public policy in influencing access to services, health behaviors, and outcomes. She has an extensive record of research on adolescent SRH, including their access and use of contraceptive services, their attitudes, knowledge, and perception of norms around contraceptive use, and their sexual behaviors. Currently, she is engaged in multiple research projects examining young people’s receipt of information about contraception and abortion, including from social media. She intentionally designs her work to contribute to a multidisciplinary and impactful knowledge base to support evidence-informed public health policy that promotes equity in access and outcomes.
Laura has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, monographs, reports, and book chapters. She has been invited multiple times in the past few years to present my research to federal staff at HHS and NIH as they seek to improve relevant federal data systems. Further reflecting my expertise in sexual and reproductive health, she has served on advisory committees for the National Center for Health Statistics, the Office of Population Affairs, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Coalition to Expand Contraceptive Access (CECA), and the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine. Currently she serves as a technical research advisor to support improved data collection around contraceptive service availability and utilization for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the New Jersey Pregnancy Risk Monitory System (PRAMS) and serve on the Research Advisory Board for Power to Decide
Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor with IREACH in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and is descendant Tolowa and Chetco. Her research focus is on the role of cultural engagement and revitalization in promoting wellbeing for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and she is particularly invested in community- and strengths-based research. She received both her MPH in health behavior and her PhD in biological anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before continuing her training as a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Community Wellbeing at Harvard Medical School, where she was also a scholar with the Harvard University Native American Program. She currently serves as a member of the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program Indigenous Research Working Group.
Taylor is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Macalester College, and completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at the University of Washington (UW) under the supervision of Jon Wakefield (a CSDE Affiliate) in Summer 2023. Her current line of research involves developing new statistical methods for estimating child mortality in low- and middle-income countries with complex survey data. She is currently working towards involving undergraduates at Macalester College in research projects related to age heaping and official statistics production for the United Nations. Her new lines of research is actively pursuing research with collaborators at Macalester related to ecological interactions in communities that live in close contact with large mammals, and the impact these interactions have on human and animal populations.
Joan Casey is an environmental epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in 2014, advised by Dr. Brian S. Schwartz. She holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Columbia University. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she had the opportunity to initiate ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations. She studies climate-related environmental challenges while considering the important role of social determinants of health, with the goal of informing policy decisions.
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Dr. D’Alpoim Guedes is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist who employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted their foraging practices and agricultural strategies to new environments and have developed resilience in the face of climatic and social change. She employs a variety of different methodologies in her research including archaeobotany, paleoclimate reconstruction and computational modeling. Dr. d’Alpoim Guedes’ primary region of focus is Asia, where she has worked extensively in China, but also has interests in Nepal, Thailand and Pakistan. Dr. d’Alpoim Guedes also works closely with crop scientists to examine the potential of landraces of traditional crops such as millet, wheat, barley and buckwheat for modern agricultural systems.
Jing Xu is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and completed postdoctoral work in developmental psychology at the University of Washington. Her work uses interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches to examine child development and family wellbeing in diverse populations and cultural contexts. As an anthropologist and a developmental scientist, her research covers various lifestages and populations spanning multiple geographic regions and historical periods, i.e., contemporary China, America and Europe, Cold-War era Taiwan. Her latest project is relevant to migration studies, examining differences in developmental patterns across migrant and non-migrant families in three countries (The Republic of Congo, the U.S., and the UK).