Neena Albarus(she/her) is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research experience spans structural violence, community development, and the intersections of policy and public health in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Her dissertation explores interventions addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica. Neena is committed to using data to advance social interventions across the Caribbean and other underrepresented regions.
Taylor Brown(he/him) is a PhD Candidate in Social Welfare and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. He studies how welfare states mediate climate adaptation and inequality, theorizing ecosocial policy—the overlap of welfare and environmental states. His research bridges social science and the humanities, using econometrics, computational social science, and critical text analysis. He is a Research Associate and Adjunct Professor with Tulane University’s CEDR/DRLA, a Senior Data Science Fellow at the UC Berkeley Social Science Data Lab, involved in the Environmental...
