Anya is currently a Project Manager at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a hub for research on global development. At CEGA, she works on the Data Science for Development program, which facilitates the use of frontier approaches (including machine learning) to improve the targeting of social protection programs in low- and middle-income countries. She also supports the Institutions and Governance research program and is a Research Assistant for Professor Ted Miguel.
Prior to joining CEGA in 2019, she worked as a researcher for Professor Steven Levitt at the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. While in Chicago, she helped found a social good think tank, Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC), and laid the groundwork for the center’s first initiatives in criminal justice. Anya graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago in Economics with Honors with a minor in Philosophy in 2017. She is starting her PhD in Economics at Brown in 2022. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship.