Opportunity Insights
Gabriela Goodman is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Opportunity Insights since July 2025 and has served as a Board Member for WomenNC since November 2023. Prior experience includes a role as a Senior Research Assistant at The Brookings Institution from July 2023 to June 2025 and earlier positions as a Research Assistant in the Economics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from May 2020 to July 2023. Additional roles include Advisory Intern at KPMG, Legislative Intern at the U.S. House of Representatives, and WomenNC Scholar at WomenNC. Gabriela also held positions such as Associate & Internship Coordinator at SafeUP and Business Development Consultant at Kenan Foundation Asia. Gabriela was awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2021. Gabriela completed education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2019 to 2023.
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Opportunity Insights
Opportunity Insights is a new non-partisan, not-for-profit, research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity and founded by leading economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Nathaniel Hendren. Opportunity Insights’ research on economic mobility harnesses the power of big data to document both the decline of the American Dream and potential solutions to revive it. Its central mission is to develop scalable policy solutions that empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes. Formerly the Equality of Opportunity Project, our research partnership is focused on understanding the hidden forces influencing the achievement of upward mobility. Leveraging big data to explore some of the most enduring beliefs about American society, we have released research on how children’s neighborhoods shape their future economic success and data on every college and university in America’s role in helping students move up the income ladder. In addition, we have convened the Collegiate Leaders in Increasing MoBility (CLIMB) initiative – a partnership with higher education institutions representing over 2.5 million students across the country – and, most recently, released research with the US Census Bureau on the impact of race on a child’s economic prospects.