Patrick Youngblood - Incite at Columbia University

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Patrick Youngblood has been the Research Manager at Columbia Labor Lab since its inception in 2019.

Previously, he has worked as a high school social studies teacher, a manager of residential programming for students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities, and was part of founding and running a community center in Austin, Texas, that was shared by several nonprofit organizations.

Patrick holds an MA in International Economics from the American University School of International Service, and a BA in History and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Projects

  • go to Apprenticeship and Re-entry
    Apprenticeship and Re-entry
    Evaluating the economic and criminal legal impacts of building trades pre-apprenticeship programs for people returning from incarceration. Funded by Arnold Ventures
  • go to Healthcare Unionization Study
    Healthcare Unionization Study
    Evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on health and labor market outcomes in the healthcare sector.  Funded by JPAL-MIT, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute, and Washington Center for Equitable Growth
  • go to Identifying Latent Leaders
    Identifying Latent Leaders
    Using predictive modeling to identify potential organizers and activists within union membership data. In Partnership with SEIU Local 32BJ and Communications Workers of America

Related Works

  • open website

    Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Adam Reich, Patrick Youngblood, "Quantitative Tools for Service Sector Organizing", New Labor Forum, February 8, 2021

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