Executive Committee
Executive Director
Sara Hooker Nominally Irish, Sara spent her childhood in Africa, growing up in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Lesotho and Kenya. She believes in empowering nonprofits to use data for good. She regularly teaches machine learning courses to the wider community, and will be in Nairobi, Kenya this summer helping build technical capacity in communities around the world. Her research interests include deep learning architecture, audio processing and unsupervised learning. Her prior experience in industry includes working as a recommendation engineer at Udemy, and working on anti-trust models and analysis as an economic consultant. In her spare time she loves running, exploring the coast of California and eating Beauty's bagels in Oakland where she lives. |
Director of Operations
Cecilia Cheng Cecilia graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013, where she double-majored in economics and legal studies. For the next two years, she worked at an economic consulting firm in Oakland. She is currently at Yale Law School and helps remotely with operational aspects of Delta Analytics. She is especially interested in the economic analysis of judicial processes and has loved offering her research and data experience to the public sector and giving back to the amazing Bay Area community. In her spare time, she travels, sings, and passively takes credit for cooking from a mix. |
Director of Projects
Jonathan Wang
Jonathan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014 and worked in economic consulting for a year before joining Uber as a Fraud Associate. Through his experiences working as a pro-bono management consultant through The Berkeley Group, he developed a passion for collaborating with social sector organizations to affect greater change. This inspired the founding of Delta Analytics which bridged Jonathan's interests in data and social impact. Outside of his work with Delta Analytics, he enjoys reading, music, and fencing his weapons of choice, sabre and foil.
Jonathan Wang
Jonathan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014 and worked in economic consulting for a year before joining Uber as a Fraud Associate. Through his experiences working as a pro-bono management consultant through The Berkeley Group, he developed a passion for collaborating with social sector organizations to affect greater change. This inspired the founding of Delta Analytics which bridged Jonathan's interests in data and social impact. Outside of his work with Delta Analytics, he enjoys reading, music, and fencing his weapons of choice, sabre and foil.
Leadership
Program Lead
Emily Rourke Emily graduated from Tufts University in 2014 with a degree in economics, and currently works as a business analyst at Facebook. Her passion for using data to impact the social sector originated from her time working as a research assistant at Tufts for Better Work, an organization targeted at improving the livelihoods of garment factory workers in developing countries. She is excited to bring data and analytical skills to help the wide range of incredible non-profits in the Bay Area. Outside of work, Emily enjoys running, hiking, drawing, sewing, and crossword puzzles. |
Fellow Experience Lead
Anna Shen Anna graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014 with a degree in Political Science with a concentration in Empirical Methods and Quantitative Analysis. She is currently the User Acquisition Manager at a healthcare startup called Curology. She first became interested in pursuing data for good when she learned about the Camden Coalition in one of her public policy courses: Dr. Jeffrey Brenner stumbled upon the realization that the majority of healthcare costs in Camden were originating from just 10% of the population. Using this data, Brenner developed a technique called hotspotting that allowed him to identify these at risk individuals and follow up with preventative care, reducing overall healthcare costs in Camden by over 40% in a single year. From then on she was convinced that data was key to identifying and solving problems. After that course she became involved in Berkeley's Measure D, the nation's first tax on soda which passed in 2014, and conducted the initial public survey on the groundbreaking measure. She believes data can empower communities and transform lives. In her free time she likes to do yoga. |
2017 Project Leads
Hannah is the project lead for BUILD.
Hannah is passionate about harnessing data toward social good, in areas such as poverty, mental health, and public policy. Hannah currently works as an Analyst at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm. In her free time she enjoys trail running and reading science fiction.
Hannah is passionate about harnessing data toward social good, in areas such as poverty, mental health, and public policy. Hannah currently works as an Analyst at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm. In her free time she enjoys trail running and reading science fiction.
Alice is the project lead for City Year.
Alice has always had an interest to learn more about how she could donate her time and skill to make an impact in the space of education, women and underprivileged children. This notion has led her to volunteer as a prject lead for Delta Analytics. Alice currently works full time at Genentech as a Senior Business Process Manager. In her free time she enjoys traveling, hot yoga and running.
Alice has always had an interest to learn more about how she could donate her time and skill to make an impact in the space of education, women and underprivileged children. This notion has led her to volunteer as a prject lead for Delta Analytics. Alice currently works full time at Genentech as a Senior Business Process Manager. In her free time she enjoys traveling, hot yoga and running.
Sara and Steven are joint project leads for Rainforest Connection.
Sara is a Data Scientist at Udemy, an edtech company devoted to lifelong learning. She is the Executive Director at Delta. She loves applying deep learning technology for good.
Sara is a Data Scientist at Udemy, an edtech company devoted to lifelong learning. She is the Executive Director at Delta. She loves applying deep learning technology for good.
Steven and Sara are joint project leads for Rainforest Connection.
Steven is passionate about the environment and thrilled to see Rainforest Connection using machine learning to make an impact. Steven works full-time at Stitch Fix as a data platform engineer, and likes to play guitar in his free time.
Steven is passionate about the environment and thrilled to see Rainforest Connection using machine learning to make an impact. Steven works full-time at Stitch Fix as a data platform engineer, and likes to play guitar in his free time.
Andrew is the project lead for Samasource. He is our first project lead that also works with our grant recipient full time as a project manager.
Andrew is passionate about leveraging data to increase efficacy of social sector strategies. Andrew currently works at Samasource, managing projects in Kenya, Uganda, and India, while also tying Samasource’s business operations data to impact metrics. There are very few activities Andrew loves more than eating avocados.
Andrew is passionate about leveraging data to increase efficacy of social sector strategies. Andrew currently works at Samasource, managing projects in Kenya, Uganda, and India, while also tying Samasource’s business operations data to impact metrics. There are very few activities Andrew loves more than eating avocados.
Karla is the project lead for Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
Karla is the PL for BGCI and is looking forward to contributing to the future of trees on our planet. She is an independent contractor who works often with HyperArts Web Design building tools for different types of companies. She has an MBA and is interested in all kinds of things.
Karla is the PL for BGCI and is looking forward to contributing to the future of trees on our planet. She is an independent contractor who works often with HyperArts Web Design building tools for different types of companies. She has an MBA and is interested in all kinds of things.
Ajay is the project lead for TechnoServe, a non-profit which is a second time around Delta Grant Recipient.
Ajay is passionate about leveraging data to create impact beyond his day job at Google. Ajay is in product marketing at Google, working on the Cloud business. In his free time, he enjoys trying new wines, tennis, hiking in the Bay Area, and baking cakes.
Ajay is passionate about leveraging data to create impact beyond his day job at Google. Ajay is in product marketing at Google, working on the Cloud business. In his free time, he enjoys trying new wines, tennis, hiking in the Bay Area, and baking cakes.
Roberto is the project lead for Social Justice Collaborative.
Roberto is enthusiastic about making the world a better place, both finding data driven solution to social impact problems and also helping people along the way. Roberto works as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix. He was previously on the data science team at Stitch fix, and he enjoys watching movies and shows, playing video games and going out with friends in his free time.
Roberto is enthusiastic about making the world a better place, both finding data driven solution to social impact problems and also helping people along the way. Roberto works as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix. He was previously on the data science team at Stitch fix, and he enjoys watching movies and shows, playing video games and going out with friends in his free time.
