Sofia Guo (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Social Welfare. She studies public child welfare workforce issues from an interdisciplinary perspective by quantifying wage affordability for social workers and linking pay data with union contract information to better understand drivers of worker turnover among other related challenges. Currently, Sofia is a graduate student researcher at the California Child Welfare Indicators Project; she is also a fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (Computational Social Science Training Program) and the Institute for Research on Employment and Labor. She received her B.A. in economics in 2019 and her Master of Social Work in 2024 both from UC Berkeley. Previously, Sofia was an assistant budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, DC.
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Link Between Public Child Protective Services (CPS) Worker Wages, Working Conditions, and Worker Outcomes in California Counties
CPS workforce recruitment and retention, wage analysis, tenure, and turnover issues
