About Me

My name is Quiana Anderson, and I am a Master of Computational Social Science candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. As a returning student, I earned my Bachelor of Arts in History with a concentration in Social Justice and Citizenship from California State University, East Bay in May 2025, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a 3.93 GPA.

I am a dual-trained AMI Montessori guide — Primary and Assistance to Infancy — and spent over a decade in the classroom as a primary teacher and toddler guide, including five years as Director of Early Childhood Education across four schools. That foundation in child development and family services continues to shape my commitment to equitable outcomes for vulnerable communities.

My graduate research sits at the intersection of computational methods and social justice. Current projects include predicting chronic absenteeism for approximately 80,000 Oakland Unified School District students in partnership with Oakland Natives Give Back and Wizearly, analyzing thirty years of Congressional discourse on homelessness using natural language processing, and quantifying the commercial cost of mass incarceration by measuring how state-level carceral policy suppresses financial market participation. This latest work, developed for my Quantitative Political Risk Analysis course, bridges my deep interest in criminal justice equity with rigorous political economy analysis—examining whether state sentencing policy systematically reduces banking access, credit availability, and mortgage lending for the 77 million Americans with criminal records.

I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa, affiliated with Sacramento City College, and Tau Sigma National Honor Society, affiliated with California State University, East Bay. I am a proud mother and grandmother — my daughter recently welcomed my grandson, the love of my life. In my personal time I enjoy hiking, lifting weights, cuddling my golden doodles, and spending time with family and friends.