Jeff Sternberg
Adjunct Lecturer at Steans Family Foundation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Sternberg is an urban sociologist and data-driven policy researcher with a PhD from Northeastern and eight years of experience turning complex urban challenges—housing, workforce development, ARPA program evaluation, and innovation ecosystems—into actionable insights for cities and foundations. He combines quantitative data engineering, spatial analysis, and qualitative fieldwork to design impact metrics, automated reporting systems, and network models that informed Detroit’s $826M ARPA portfolio and foundation-level investment strategies. As an educator and practitioner, he translates research into curriculum and community-engaged projects, teaching urban policy and guiding students in applied data work. Unusually for a policy researcher, he has hands-on experience building computational pipelines and computer-vision–adjacent methods from his graduate work, enabling cross-disciplinary approaches to place-based problems. Based in Chicago, he specializes in aligning data strategy with equity-centered policymaking to improve real-world outcomes for working people.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology at Northeastern UniversityBachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at Michigan State University
Github Skills (3)
python1
image-processing1
computer-vision1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jeffrey-sternberg/jeffrey-sternberg.github.io
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
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Contributions:177 pushes in 1 month
jeffreysternberg530/academic-kickstart
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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