Christina Mokhtar

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Senior Research Associate

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Christina provides publicly available data and research analyses for the Annenberg Institute's efforts in supporting community organizing. She works with public agencies and community-based organizations to ensure access to meaningful data and research to inform policy decisions, promote greater public accountability, and help community groups improve public education in New York City and other urban areas. Previously, she was a research officer at the Social Disadvantage Research Centre in Oxford, UK, while completing her PhD at Oxford. Her work at the center included analyzing and measuring poverty and social deprivation; she made major contributions to projects such as the English Indices of Deprivation, which form the basis for the distribution of substantial financial resources to local government authorities across England, and the National Evaluation of the New Deal for Communities (NDC) Programme, which assesses the effectiveness of the English government's flagship neighborhood regeneration initiative. Christina holds a PhD in social policy from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's of sociology, bachelor's of social work, and master's in social welfare policy from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Her fields of interest include urban disadvantage, poverty, ethnicity, social policy, and education.