Priscila Amorim

Job title: 
Changemaker Technology Project
Department: 
Data Science
Digital Health Social Justice
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Priscila Amorim is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley's Bachelor's of Arts in Data Science program, and is currently attending Northwestern Univerisity for a Master's of Science in Data Science. Priscila is passionate about the intersection of technology and social justice, and in particular, health justice. Their goal is to work on climate justice through database management or data engineering to support data scientists and analysts in their work through the availability of ubiquitous data. Priscila is currently working on the Changemaker's Digital Health Project to help create interventions that will aid underserved communities battling depression and diabetes. Their primary task on this project was to create analyses on GPS location data and step data from participants of the DIAMANTE study, while also contributing to the toolkit with an emphasis on privacy and security. 

Research interests: 

Data Science, Data Engineering, Database Management

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