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Susan Ayasse Grand received an M.A. in Demography from UC Berkeley in 1992.
In the 1990's she worked at UCDATA with the California Department of Social Services, helping to evaluate the Clinton administration's welfare reforms. On this project, Grand managed a large database of State of California Medi-Cal data extracts; writing SAS syntax to clean data, run analyses and ... crash the unix buffer space. Despite the missing semi-colons, she developed a passion for people data and data people.
This passion evolved at the D-Lab, where Grand worked from 2013 to 2019. At D-Lab, Grand served as the manager of administration and operations. Grand believes that informed operations are key to providing a strong foundation for the D-Lab's program of data intensive social sciences.
