Katya Rodriguez is a Ph.D. candidate at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND.
She has experience conducting audits of federal agencies' programs ranging from the Departments of State and Interior, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency. Topics of the audits include global activities to counter narcotics and transnational organized crime, policies to ensure U.S. equipment provided to partner nations is being used for its intended purposes, and the public debt of the U.S. territories. She has experience using various quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as focus groups, semi-structured and structured interviews, and budget analyses. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador as part of the youth and families program. She is proficient in Stata and a beginner in Python and R.
Katya’s research interests include international affairs—with a focus on Latin America, women's health, public safety, and crime and violence prevention. She has an M.A. in international and area studies (M.A.-I.A.S.) and an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her B.A. in sociology with departmental honors and a minor in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Education
M.P.P. in policy analysis, University of California-Berkeley; M.A. in international development and conflict, University of California-Berkeley; B.A. in sociology, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
Languages
Spanish