Kathryn Kay O’Neill is a Ph.D. student in sociology and demography at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests focus on poverty, intergenerational mobility, and quantitative methodology and measurement, particularly on topics which can be applied to inform public policy. She has worked as a policy analyst at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, and holds a Masters of Public Policy from UC Riverside and a Bachelor’s degree in Community and Regional Development with a minor in Linguistics from UC Davis.