Noura Insolera is a Research Investigator at the U-M Institute for Social Research. She leads the Education and Outreach team for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) at the Survey Research Center. Dr. Insolera’s research focuses on the health, educational, and socioeconomic outcomes of income inequality and the social and economic factors that can ameliorate its effects. Her main interests are currently focused on food insecurity, social safety net participation, nutrition, and obesity in children and adults. Her interdisciplinary approach to this subject connects sociology and economics with public health and survey research in order to obtain a comprehensive life course perspective. Dr. Insolera completed her undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Michigan, her master’s degree in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, and her doctoral degree in Sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Sandra Tang is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a unit within the U-M Institute for Social Research. Dr. Tang works with colleagues across disciplines in academic, applied, and policy research settings. In her research, she uses various types of data (quantitative, qualitative, audiovisual) to investigate how family context and family-school partnerships promote students’ educational success and positive developmental outcomes. In addition to collecting and analyzing existing data, she has created data for other researchers to use. She was the PI of a project that created a geospatial data module on food accessibility in the United States. This data module links commercial and administrative data to longitudinal survey data on children and families in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dr. Tang earned a PhD in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College and completed an NICHD postdoctoral training fellowship in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan.