About - Data for Social Good

about us

Meet our team

OUR MISSION

Elections are about people, and people do not go away after an election. Rather, they continue to live and work in the community. Our approach is to bring their voices to bear during the electoral and non-electoral processes to bring about better governance. To that end, we use data to make that work easier.

In other words, our mission is to provide the data, tools, and strategies organizations and campaigns need to politicize social networks, build social capital, and deepen U.S. civil society.

OUR CORE VALUES

We are a data driven, execution minded, diverse team that will aid our customers in fulfilling their missions.

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Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla

President and Board Chair

Chancellor’s Professor, Education and Political Science at UC Berkeley. Principle & Cofounder American Majority Project Research Institute

Jose Luis Bedolla

CEO

MBA with 17 years of delivering technology products in various fields, with patents around navigation product Clinton/Gorefield operative

Jessica Maya Rodriguez

Director of Operations

Jessica serves as DSG’s Director of Operations. She graduated from Berkeley in Data Science with an emphasis on Inequalities in Society at Berkeley. She manages the rest of the DSG research team in her day-to-day functions which include data analysis, marketing, and App development among other roles. In her role, Jessica is focused on empowering underrepresented communities through technology and making transformative changes possible through data science.

Rubi Michelle Gonzalez

Data Analyst

Rubi serves as a Research and Data Analyst for DSG. In her role, she is responsible for data analysis, reporting, and product development. She is passionate about utilizing secondary data analysis to help support marginalized groups. Rubi has a BA from UC Riverside in Sociology and an MS from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Data Analytics and Computational Social Science.

Alyson Otañez

Research Assistant

A first-year at UC San Diego studying Political Science: Data Analytics, Alyson is passionate about using data to find incentives that will increase voter turnout among underrepresented groups.

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Gabriela Rojas Cendejas

Research Assistant

Gabriela is a UC San Diego graduate focusing on anthropology and wants to learn more about political geography as a part of the Data for Social Good team.

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Luis Garcia

Research Assistant

As a UC San Diego student with a focus on International Business Administration, Luis hopes to use his skills to improve underserved communities as a part of the DSG team.