Team directory
Team directory
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.
Sean Brady, Dahl Scholar, 2023-2024
Sean is (he/they) from Nashville, Tennessee, is an Eli Whitney Scholar majoring in political science. Collaborating with Professor Joshua Kalla, Sean is running a survey experiment examining the persuasive and agenda setting powers of disruptive protests. Previously, Sean worked on various political campaigns nationwide, including as an outreach director for city council and senate campaigns, and as an organizer on the Clinton Presidential campaign.
Nikhe Braimah, ISPS Director's Fellow 2024
Nikhe Braimah (he/him) is a junior in Branford College majoring in history. Originally from the Bay Area, he is interested in building sustainable solutions to the housing crisis in America’s cities through housing policy, urban development, and homelessness prevention. Recently, Nikhe has worked with the New Haven Fair Rent Commission, the New Haven Homeless Advisory Commission, and the Housing and Health Equity Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.
Ellie Burke, Dahl Scholar, 2023-2024
Ellie (she/her) is a senior history major in Silliman College from Kansas City, Missouri. Her research interests include studying the role of art and culture in social movements. Her thesis explored the impacts of the South African musical Sarafina! on anti-apartheid protest in the United States with advisor Professor Daniel Magaziner. As a Dahl Scholar, Ellie examined American foreign policy toward the South African apartheid regime from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.
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.
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.