Shira Mitchell

Shira Mitchell

Statistician | Civis Analytics

Shira Mitchell is a statistician working in politics. After her PhD at Harvard and postdoc at Columbia, she worked at Mathematica Policy Research on small area estimation and causal inference for federal agencies (mostly Medicare and Medicaid). She then worked at the NYC Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA), deploying and critiquing data-driven policy. Now she works at Civis Analytics on the company's political research team in NYC.