- department Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development
- education Master’s of Education (Education Policy and Analysis) – Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts (Economics / Urban Studies) – McGill University
Yang Lu is a data analyst at the Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD) at Boston University School of Social Work.
Lu brings research interests and experience in educational inequalities and quantitative social sciences to the research and data projects at IECOHD. Utilizing a range of computational tools, Lu helps develop indicators and maintain the data pipeline for the Child Opportunity Index.
Lu earned his master’s in education policy analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and bachelor’s in economics and urban studies from McGill University. Before graduate school, he was a dean’s fellow of new students and diversity at New York University in Shanghai.