Jake Anderson
Economics
Jake is a graduate student in UCLA’s Economics Department, with interests in labor, crime, education, and health. His current projects involve impacts of California policies on student outcomes, as well as the long-run impacts of increasing access to contraception and other medications. Jake earned his B.S. in Math and Computer Science from UC Irvine and his M.A. in Statistics from UC Berkeley. Jake’s past professional experience spans education, nonprofit, and big tech, where he worked as a senior data scientist and data science manager.
Esther Priscilla Ebuehi
Community Health Sciences
Esther Priscilla is a graduate student in UCLA’s Department of Community Health Sciences, with interests in sexual and reproductive healthcare quality, access, and individual decision-making across the life course. She is a co-founder of the California Coalition for Black Birth Justice and is passionate about using decolonized, community-based approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes at the population level. Esther Priscilla earned her B.S. in Human Development from UC Davis and her M.S. in Health and the Public Interest from Georgetown University.
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.
Shiva Rouhani
Sociology
Shiva is a graduate student in UCLA’s Sociology Department, with broad interests in labor market, educational and family formation patterns and their relationship to economic inequality in the United States. She is particularly interested in the effects of expanding precarious work conditions on the life course of individuals. Shiva earned her B.A. from Barnard College, with a major in Environmental Science and a minor in Chemistry. She also earned her M.A. in Applied Quantitative Research from New York University.