Team directory
Team directory
Rebekah Boitey, ISPS Director's Fellow 2025
Rebekah Boitey is a sophomore at Yale majoring in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration with a certificate in Data Science. She is passionate about creating informed and equitable social policies, with her primary areas of interest being criminal justice reform and affordable housing policy. On campus, she serves as a board member for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, is a research assistant with the Yale Housing and Health Equity Lab, does housing research with the Yale Policy Institute, and volunteers with the Community Healthcare Van.
Ron Borzekowski, Executive Director, Yale's Data-Intensive Social Science Center
Ron Borzekowski is the inaugural executive director of Yale’s Data-Intensive Social Science Center and the senior research scholar in the Economics Department and at the Institution for Social and Political Studies. Prior to Yale, Borzekowski was a director of economics at Amazon Web Services. During his time in public service, Borzekowski helped build and then lead the Office of Research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Susan Busch, Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Professor Busch is a Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and former chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Professor Busch’s research examines the effects of policies and regulations on health care cost and quality. Most of her work focuses on behavioral health. Professor Busch’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, an S.M.
Christina Butler, Operations Manager
Office Location: 24 Hillhouse Avenue
Email: christina.butler@yale.edu
Megan Butler, Senior Administrative Assistant
Office Location: 77 Prospect Street
Email: megan.butler@yale.edu
Elisa Celis, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Elisa Celis is an assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science department at Yale University. She studies the manifestation of social and economic biases in our online lives via the algorithms that encode and perpetuate them. Her research leverages both experimental and theoretical approaches, and her work spans multiple disciplines including data science, machine learning, fairness in socio-technical systems and algorithm design.
At Yale she co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.
Adriana Ceron, ISPS Graduate Policy Fellow 2025
Adriana Cerón is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Yale University. Her research uses multiple methods to examine the impact of U.S. immigration policy, immigration enforcement, and legal statuses on the lives of immigrants and their families, particularly those from Central America. Currently, Adriana’s work contributes to the growing literature on the aftermath of deportation. Her dissertation unravels the far-reaching consequences of the deportation regime on Salvadorans deported from the U.S., including those who return to the U.S. after deportation. She earned her B.A.
Kerwin Charles, Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management
Kerwin K. Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management at the Yale School of Management (SOM). He has studied and published on a range of topics, including earnings and wealth inequality, conspicuous consumption, race and gender labor market discrimination, health and the labor market, the effects of housing booms and busts, and non-employment in the economy.
Sarwat Chaudhry, Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Dean for Student Research, Office of Education; Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
Sarwat Chaudhry, MD is a board-certified internist who completed her clinical training at the University of Chicago. She came to Yale for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and now holds a faculty position as Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Medicine. Her work focuses on improving the care and outcomes of hospitalized patients, with a focus on older patients hospitalized for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Chaudhry serves as Associate Dean of Student Research and is Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale.
Lara Chausow, Graduate Student, Political Science
Email: lara.chausow@yale.edu
Lara Chausow is a graduate student who studies American Politics, with a focus on Congress, lobbying, and interest groups. Prior to entering graduate school, she conducted research and advocacy for government ethics and campaign finance reform at Public Citizen in Washington, DC.