Sean Luna McAdams

Sean Luna McAdams

Program Manager, Data Science for Development (DS4D) Program, CEGA

Sean Luna McAdams is Program Manager of the Data Science for Development (DS4D) Program at CEGA. He previously served as Project Manager of the Narratives Project at JustLabs, a human rights innovation hub. This work focused on how to use evidence-based approaches to build constituencies of support for human rights work globally. He received his PhD from Princeton University’s Politics Department in 2021. His academic work considers the origins, development, and consequences of judicial empowerment in Latin America. He is an advocate of methodological pluralism and mixed-method research designs, and has implemented qualitative, statistical, and computational research designs in his own work. Before beginning his Ph.D., Sean studied the private funding of human rights advocacy and the future of the human rights movement as a researcher at Dejusticia, a Bogotá-based human rights advocacy organization/think tank. He completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University. When not pondering how social change happens, he enjoys gardening, swimming, and cooking, particularly the recipes passed down by his maternal grandmother and mom—two formidable Peruvian chefs.