Hi, my name is Annette! 👋🏻
About
I am a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley.
Interests
My research broadly focuses on how technology is integrated in social welfare programs and labor regulations. I primarily integrate quantitative and computational methods with historical methods to examine the determinants and outcomes of present-day social welfare institutions.
Affiliations
- I am currently in the Political Economy Designated Emphasis Program and am a fellow in the Computational Social Science Training Program at Berkeley.
- Prior to my PhD program, I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School working on The Shift Project and a Research Analyst in the Urban and Regional Economics team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. My undergraduate training is in math and economics at Ohio State (go bucks).
Updates
- March 2026: I’ll be at SASE this summer (July) in Bourdeaux, France, where I’ll be presenting joint work on coercive and voluntary antidiscrimination strategies in service sector work.
- December 2024: I’ll be at the ISA Forum of Sociology conference this summer (July) in Rabat, Morocco where I’ll be presenting work I’ve been doing on survey targeting in Meta.
- November 2024: My first publication! Joint work with Danny Schneider and Kristen Harknett is out in Social Science Research: “COVID-19 employment shocks and safety net expansion”. This was my first project while working at The Shift Project, so it’s exciting to see it published.
- June 2024: Presenting my master’s paper, “Medicaid Eligibility Determination in an Automated Welfare State” at SASE in Limerick, Ireland.
- Summer 2024: Working with Ruth Milkman, Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, and Isaac Jabola-Carolus to study gray market home care health workers. See some related work here.
- May 2024: I am now a graduate student affiliate with the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at Berkeley.
- Summer 2023: I worked with the Labor Center’s Low-Wage Work Program as a graduate student researcher focusing on unionization in California
- Summer 2023: I worked as a graduate student researcher with Professor Marion Fourcade.