Justin De Benedictis-kessner
Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJustin De Benedictis-Kessner is an urban-focused political scientist and Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor at Harvard Kennedy School with 11 years of experience researching accountability, representation, and public policy in cities. He combines field experiments, survey polling, quantitative analysis, and GIS to study housing, transportation, policing, and economic development, and he teaches applied courses that partner students with municipal policymakers. His work bridges academic rigor and practical problem-solving—building tools such as the MBTAr R package and collaborating with city governments through applied labs. A summa cum laude William & Mary alumnus and MIT PhD, he brings both deep methodological skill and hands-on engagement with urban governance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Political Science, PhD Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhillips Exeter AcademyBA summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Government and Psychology, BA summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa Government and Psychology at William & Mary
Github Skills (27)
r-package7
tiger7
prediction7
local-database6
census6
serve5
django-rest-framework5
bayesian5
api5
api-blueprint5
django5
markdown4
restful-api4
geopandas4
docker4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
justindbk/seeclickfixr
Aug 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 10 months
r-packageapidata-api
justindbk/ceda
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 5 months
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