Angela Zhang

About

I’m currently a third-year Population, Health, and Place Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California (USC). Most recently, I was an Emerson National Hunger Fellow at the Congressional Hunger Center. Through the fellowship, I was fortunate enough to work with both a local community-based organization and a national think tank, respectively: Just Harvest in Pittsburgh and The Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Prior to being an Emerson Fellow, I was a research assistant at UCLA and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. While in the Population, Health, and Place program, my dissertation is centered on immigrant health equity. I also incorporate participatory methods into my work as a scholar and advocate.

Education In 2021, I graduated with my B.S. in Mathematics of Computation from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before I became interested in research, I was working toward a career in software development. In undergrad, I interned at Adobe during the summer of my junior year. I also worked on and led a number of student art and programming projects.

Research Interests

• Immigrant health
• Systems science
• Community-based participatory research
• Food systems