Dr. Veronica Terriquez is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University California Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at UCLA, her Masters degree in Education at UC Berkeley, and her B.A. in Sociology at Harvard University. Her research focuses on immigrant integration, youth transitions to adulthood, civic engagement, and social inequality. Dr. Terriquez is the principal investigator of the California Young Adult Study, Youth Leadership and Health Study, and the Young Voter Engagement Study. Informed by over two decades of connections to social justice movements...
Jasmijn Slootjes was the former Executive Director of BIMI and coordinated BIMI’s research projects, training programs, public engagement and grant writing. Before joining BIMI, Jasmijn worked at Google and completed her PhD research about how migrants overcome health problems as obstacles to labor market integration in the Netherlands by using both quantitative and qualitative research (VU University Amsterdam, 2017). One article emerging out of this research has won the best publication of the year award in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. During...
Professional Academic Advisor / California Promise Advisor
My lived experience in higher education is what shapes my advising philosophy. As a first-generation, non-traditional transfer student, I have gone through obstacles and challenges during my time in higher education; and throughout that time I have learned many lessons. Through those lessons, I had the support and guidance of an advisor so I could pave my way to achieve academic success. Now that I am in a position where I can advise students, I want to be the disseminator of information and the backbone support like others were for me. In doing so, I encourage a collaborative effort in...
I'm a policy researcher for Wisconsin's state legislature, working on public health, child welfare, Medicaid, and other benefit programs for the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. I'm continuously learning more about everything from state agencies to budget negotiations, and honing my skills at researching and efficiently communicating my findings to legislators and their staff.
Prior to joining the fiscal bureau, I gained experience in the state legislatures of Florida and California. I've also worked on policy at the local level; after graduating, I completed a research...
Jaqueline Perez Verdin is a recent UC Berkeley graduate having majored in Public Health and minoring in in Global Poverty & Practice. Growing up in a border city and as a first generation Latinx student, Jackie witnessed both first and secondhand how the complexity of immigration tends to translate to hardships, inequities, and barriers to accessing basic needs for members in her community. Her public health studies and volunteer work have led her to further focus on immigrant health as it relates to policy and social determinants of health. She has learned about public
Jae Yeon Kim is a Senior Quantitative Researcher at Code for America who helps team efforts to improve safety net experiences and outcomes. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley. His dissertation received the Best Dissertation Award in Urban and Local Politics from American Political Science Association. Since 2020, he has been involved in the Mapping Modern Agora Project at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which uses big data and machine learning to map the US civil society at scale. In 2022, he was an assistant professor of data science at the KDI...
