Russell Richie
Director Of Strategy And Impact
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Richie is Director of Strategy and Impact at the Progress and Poverty Institute, combining strategic planning and fundraising with empirical research on land value taxation and Georgist urban economics. He applies an uncommon computational lens to land and urban policy, using data science, econometrics, and applied machine learning to measure land values and model fiscal and distributional impacts. Previously he spent over a decade in cognitive and behavioral science—rising to Associate Director of MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania—where he led large teaching programs, supervised trainees, and developed NLP and machine-learning pipelines. His background as a data scientist at CHOP and postdoctoral researcher at Penn and Wharton means he pairs rigorous experimental design with production-oriented modeling and explainable-AI experience. Based in Philadelphia, he also serves as Treasurer of 5th Square Advocacy, bringing scholarly rigor to practical urbanist advocacy. His career reflects a rare blend of behavioral-science training and hands-on technical fluency applied to real-world urban and fiscal policy challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High SchoolN/A, Linguistics, N/A, Linguistics at Linguistics Society of America Summer InstituteHigh School, High School at St. Johnsbury AcademyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology at University of ConnecticutB.A., Psychology, B.A., Psychology at Bates Collegen/a, Linguistics, n/a, Linguistics at Linguistics Society of America's Summer Institute
American Sign Language, English
Stackoverflow
421reputation
27kreached
5answers
8questions
Github Skills (175)
python10
cython10
fairness-ml10
scikit10
pandas10
statistics10
nlp10
jupyter10
data-science10
text-classification10
natural-language-processing10
data-analysis10
transformer-architecture10
named-entity-recognition10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
drussellmrichie/drussellmrichie.github.io
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:150 pushes in 5 years 8 months
drussellmrichie/hopfield_network
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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