Satvika Neti (she/her/hers) embraces the hyphen and works to bridge the gap between technology and social impact. She is most passionate about storytelling through data for communities. Satvika currently works on the Criminal Justice Analytics team at Allegheny County's Department of Human Services in the Analytics, Technology, and Planning department. 

Here, she works on translating data to actionable insights for different criminal justice stakeholders, primarily the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program (LEAD) and Allegheny County's Community Violence Reduction Initiative (CVRI). This involves creating analytical products like dashboards and reports, collaborating with program managers to design and implement evaluation and monitoring plans for the programs, and writing adhoc queries to pull data on program numbers and service involvement. She has also had a hand in helping to create and use predictive risk models for the CVRI program, to make sure that the people who would benefit the most from the CVRI programming are the ones receiving it. 

Previously, she worked at the Center for Policing Equity as a Data Science Developer, where she worked on their Justice Navigator project. Here, she helped produce over 20 Justice Navigator reports for different police municipalities on the racial disparities in their pedestrian stops, vehicle stops, calls for service, and use of force data. She also engineered the refactoring of the Justice Navigator codebase from R to a SQL DBT-based codebase, which eased the handoff between data prep and data analysis teams and increased the speed with which Justice Navigator reports could be created. 

Satvika graduated in 2021 with a Master's degree in the MS Public Policy and Management - Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University. She also graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and Politics and a double minor in Computer Science and Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon. 

Previous to her data science career, she served as the Women and Girls Foundation’s (WGF) resident digital social justice advocate, where she led efforts to mobilize members and supporters to take action to break down barriers for women and girls. While there, she organized Femisphere Codeswitch, a hackathon to design digital solutions for single moms in poverty. Satvika is also a founding member of Rangoli Pittsburgh, an initiative created to amplify the voices of the South Asian LGBTQIA+ community in Pittsburgh. 

Prior to joining WGF, Satvika worked with NovaKultura and interned with the Society for Science and the Public, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for American Progress, and the ACLU. In 2018, she was honored as a Sprout Fund Legacy Awardee, by Governor Tom Wolf’s Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs as an Asian American Heritage Month honoree, and as a TEDx University of Pittsburgh speaker. 

You can see her full resume here.

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