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Amy O’Hara
Research Professor, Massive Data Institute, Director of Georgetown Federal Statistical Data Research Center

Amy O'Hara | Urban Institute

Amy O’Hara is a Research Professor in the Massive Data Institute and Executive Director of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center at the McCourt School for Public Policy. She works on data governance, linkage, and privacy preserving technologies. Her research focuses on population measurement, eviction and debt data, and methods to improve secure data access. O’Hara has published on topics including the measurement of income, longitudinal linkages to measure economic mobility, and the data infrastructure necessary to support government and academic research.

Stephanie Straus
Policy Fellow, Massive Data Institute

Stephanie Straus is a Policy Fellow at the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy. She works with government agencies to expand data use for research and evaluation, focusing on privacy-preserving technologies and secure data sharing. Her work supports cross-sector analysis in education, health, and civil justice through linking administrative datasets. Straus previously worked at the American Institutes for Research and holds an M.Ed. in Education Policy and Management from Harvard University.

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