About
Kai Matheson earned a B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Urban Studies from Vassar College. They are interested in utilizing quantitative and computational methods to study spatial inequality, neighborhood effects, and neighborhood change across time and space. Their undergraduate honors thesis, “Measuring Economic Segregation Based on What Matters for Creating Opportunity,” emphasized the need to incorporate the context of how neighborhoods are arranged in relation to each other when calculating segregation indices. Their research background is in quantitative applications to social science, including NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates in applied mathematics, political science, and computer science, and a two-year predoctoral research fellowship in economic opportunity and neighborhood effects. Kai values ways of thinking that cross disciplines in order to learn about the social world and the systems we navigate.
