Emily Leff

Opportunity Insights supports policymakers, practitioners, and communities to use our research and data to develop evidence-based solutions for improved economic mobility.

Expanding Geographic Choice: Creating Moves to Opportunity

Pilot effort to identify rigorous and scalable strategies to increase access to high opportunity neighborhoods.

Informing Economic Recovery: Economic Tracker

Work to use real-time, granular data to inform equitable and impactful economic recovery from COVID-19.

Understanding Higher Education: CLIMB Initiative

A partnership to explore and amplify higher education as an engine of mobility.

Supporting Local Policy: Integrating Mobility Data

An initiative to support new ways of Integrating mobility data into local decision-making.

A central part of Opportunity Insights’ mission is to train the next generation of researchers and policy leaders on methods to study and improve economic opportunity and related social problems.

Big Data Course (Harvard)

Open-source materials from Harvard campus course

Exploring the Opportunity Atlas

A series of instructional videos designed to explain the uses of the Atlas, its underlying data, and how it can help inform solutions to improve economic mobility.

Summer Course

Virtual summer course offered via PREDOC.org

Based at Harvard University, our team of researchers and policy analysts work together to analyze new data and create a platform for local stakeholders to make more informed decisions.

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Emily Leff

Research and Data Communications Associate

Emily Leff is a Research and Data Communications Associate at Opportunity Insights. Emily has worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Plural Connections, an interdisciplinary research and action lab whose mission is to use tools from data science and design to advance pluralism. Previously, she worked at Insurify, a Boston-based insurtech startup, as a Quantitative Content Writer and Data & Research Lead. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Data Analysis from Wesleyan University and Master of Science in Information Design & Data Visualization from Northeastern University.

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