Raphael Rodriguez

Data Specialist

Raphael (they/them) received their Master’s of Science from Penn State University in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. Their graduate research consisted of modeling population-scale social datasets — using machine-learning regression models — to infer systemic patterns involving social-justice issues (i.e., implicit racial bias and decision-making, community voting percentages and taxes). Prior to graduate school, Raphael worked at Facebook (now Meta) as a Product Development Specialist where their main focus was automating operational processes relating to product release. And while at Loyola Law School (Juris Doctor, 2016), Raphael split their course and career time specializing in social justice issues (i.e., race, gender, international human-rights) and working with businesses addressing environmental or human justice issues.