Schedule

Spring 2025 

• Data for Good: Challenges and Opportunities in an Age of Uncertainty

  • Evidence-based policymaking faces unprecedented challenges amidst growing government uncertainty, evolving policy priorities, skepticism in expertise, and emerging policy domains. Yet, moments of crisis often open doors to profound innovation and transformation. Join our distinguished panel of "pracademics" from diverse corners of quantitative social science in academia, non-profit research, and public opinion, to discuss pressing questions: What short- and long-term actions can we take to restore trust in evidence-based policy? What critical issues has the evidence-based policy-making community overlooked or underestimated? And crucially, how can we harness the current moment of crisis to forge better, more resilient frameworks for data-driven decision-making?

  • Time/Date: 12pm ET on April 10, 2025

  • Please take a minute to register here.

  • Panelists:  

    • Don Moynihan, Harris Family Chair at Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, expert in public administration, management, and policy implementation. 

    • Ray Block, Jr., Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Penn State, expert in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion, and political behavior.

    • Chris Bail, Professor and Director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, expert on social media, polarization, and computational social science.

    • Ilana Ventura, Research Methodologist at NORC at the University of Chicago, expert race and ethnicity measurement, migration, and survey methodology.