Sarah Beth Stein
Community Health Sciences
Sarah Beth Stein is a graduate student in UCLA’s Department of Community Health Sciences, with interests in labor, immigration, and occupational and community health as they relate to population change. Sarah’s current research focuses on how various aspects of precarious employment — including workplace hazards, contract instability, and low wages — affect health outcomes, and she advocates for the use of community-engaged research to understand worker populations. Sarah earned a B.S. in psychology from Yale and a Master of Public Health in community health sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Keri Lintz
Social Welfare
Keri Lintz is a graduate student in UCLA’s Social Welfare Department with interests in social policy, children and families, and structural disadvantage. Her current research examines how preventive policies and family resources influence the earliest years of development. Previously, Keri served as executive director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago. She currently manages the UCLA Practical Causal Inference Lab co-directed by CCPR Faculty Affiliates Professors Chad Hazlett and Onyebuchi Arah. Keri holds M.S.W. and M.P.P. degrees.
Maureen Cowhey
Sociology
Maureen Cowhey is a graduate student in UCLA’s Sociology Department, with interests in gender, work, family, and stratification. Her current research employs a mixed-methods approach– including interviews and survey experiments– to understand and address workplace gender inequalities across various social and organizational settings. She is also the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Maureen previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Division of Financial Stability. She earned her B.A. from Scripps College in Economics and English, and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nathaniel Barlow
Economics
Nathaniel Barlow is a PhD candidate in UCLA’s Economics Department, with interests in economic history, childhood trauma, and demography. His current research examines the short- and long-run outcomes of early life trauma, job disruption and migration patterns of World War II incarcerated Japanese Americans. Awarded by the Economic History Association, Nathaniel is a recipient of the Cambridge University Press Early-Stage Dissertation Grant. Previously, Nathaniel served as a Technical Associate at MIT Sloan School of Management, and as a Research Associate at The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He earned his B.A. in economics with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kristin Liao
Sociology
Kristin Liao is a PhD candidate in UCLA Sociology and the recipient of CCPR’s 2025 Trieman Fellowship. Her research interest is at the intersection of immigration, social stratification and mobility, and demography. Kristin’s dissertation examines recent changes in occupational stratification, earnings inequality, and intergenerational mobility in the United States due to immigration and “new work”. Kristin earned an LL.B. in sociology from Fudan University and a Master’s in Sociology from UCLA. She is currently working toward a Master of Science in Statistics and Data Science at UCLA alongside her Ph.D.
Tenzin Khando
Community Health Sciences
Tenzin is a graduate student in UCLA’s Department of Community Health Sciences, with interests in sexual and reproductive health, migrant, refugee, and immigrant health, and mixed-method research. Her current work focuses on structural barriers and social determinants affecting access to sexual and reproductive health services, particularly among refugees and immigrants through a life course approach. Tenzin earned her B.S.N. from India and her M.P.H. from George Washington University and has a broad background as an applied public health evaluator in humanitarian and low-resource communities.