Research Staff
Biography
Lena Song is an assistant professor of economics at UIUC. She studies media and information technologies, with a focus on their relationship to diversity and inequality. Much of her work involves original data collection including archival research or randomized experiments. She is an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University, and an affiliate of SSRC Digital Platforms Initiative, NYU Center for Social Media and Politics, and Poverty Action Lab.
Biography
Greer Mellon is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University in the Population Studies and Training Center, and she is also affiliated with the Annenberg Institute. She is a sociologist who researches educational and labor market inequalities in the United States. She is particularly interested in how leadership and organizational policies can be leveraged to reduce social inequalities. She is primarily a quantitative scholar, and conducts research with large-scale administrative data and survey experiments. Her work has been published in Sociology of Education. She has received support for her research from the NaEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and the Russell Sage Foundation.