Rebecca Johnson
Assistant Professor at GSA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Johnson is an assistant professor at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy who specializes in the intersection of data science and public policy, bringing nine years of research and applied experience across academia and government. She teaches in the MS in Data Science for Public Policy, is affiliated with the Massive Data Institute, and serves as an affiliate with GSA’s Office of Evaluation Science while consulting for civic innovation at The Lab @ DC. Her background blends a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton with earlier training in psychology and ethics from Stanford, enabling rigorous causal and ethical approaches to data-driven policy evaluation. Rebecca’s career spans method-focused academic roles and hands-on government projects, reflecting a practitioner-scholar perspective that emphasizes translating complex analytics into actionable public-sector decisions. An underappreciated strength is her cross-sector fluency—she navigates academic publishing, federal evaluation practice, and municipal data science simultaneously, which accelerates real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A./M.A., Psychology major, Econ. + Religious Studies minors; MA: Modern Religious Thought, Ethics, and Phil., B.A./M.A., Psychology major, Econ. + Religious Studies minors; MA: Modern Religious Thought, Ethics, and Phil. at Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology and Social Policy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University
Github Skills (8)
census6
python5
science5
machine-learning5
data-journalism4
data-science4
api3
replication1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rebeccajohnson88/qss20_slides_activities
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 176 pushes, 83 comments in 11 months
rebeccajohnson88/teaching_examples
Jan 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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