#  About Siobhan 

 



Siobhan Greatorex-Voith is a Ph.D. candidate in [Sociology](http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/) and pursuing a secondary field in [Computational Science and Engineering](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/programs/graduate/computational-science-and-engineering) at Harvard University. During her time at Harvard, she received support and training as a [National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow](http://www.nsfgrfp.org/about_the_program); a Data Science Fellow at [Data Science for Social Good](https://www.datascienceforsocialgood.org/); from the [RSF Summer Institute in Social-Science Genetics](/greatorexvoith/Summer%20Institute%20in%20Social-Science%20Genomics%20(SISSG)); and as graduate affiliate of [The Institute for Quantitative Social Science](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/), [Harvard's Center for Population and Development Studies](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/), and the [Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality](https://wigi.wcfia.harvard.edu/); and as a fellow of Harvard's Graduate Leadership Institute. She also worked a graduate assistant for the Psychosocial Determinants of Health (PSDH) Lab at Tufts University (PI: Adolfo C. Cuevas) and for the [Resilience in the Survivors of Katrina Project](http://riskproject.org/) (PI: [Mary C. Waters](http://scholar.harvard.edu/marywaters)). She teaches in both the Sociology and Psychology departments, and is a returning Resident Tutor at [Eliot House](https://eliot.harvard.edu/), one of Harvard's undergraduate residential colleges, where she works as an academic advisor and serves in a diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging role, specializing in support for first-generation and/or low-income students and students with disabilities.

Prior to attending Harvard, Siobhan served as the founding director of the [First Gen Program (now FLI Office)](https://fli.stanford.edu/) at Stanford University, which aims to reinforce belonging among Stanford's first generation and low income college students, and to cultivate a supportive campus climate for these students through its diversity programs that focus on socioeconomic diversity. She also helped with the launch of the [Quest Scholars Network](http://questscholarsnetwork.org/) before leaving to serve as the project manager for [Expanding College Opportunities](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/a-simple-way-to-send-poor-kids-to-top-colleges.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&hp&pagewanted=all), a national research project involving randomized interventions designed to improve the representation of high-achieving, low-income students at selective colleges.

Siobhan's broad academic interests include socioeconomic stratification and mobility; educational opportunity; psychosocial stressors; sociobiology; the social determinants of health; social psychology; social science genomics; social demography; research methodology and design (i.e., quantitative methods; qualitative methods, program evaluation, survey design, experiments); and policy. She is currently working on two major projects at the intersections of these fields.

She is a native of Milwaukee, WI and a graduate of Stanford University, where she completed a B.S. Symbolic Systems, and a B.A. with honors in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her senior thesis, “Class & Inequality in Higher Education: The Experiences of Low-Income Students in Elite Higher Education Contexts,” won the George M. Frederickson Award for Excellence. In addition to her academic work, Greatorex-Voith serves on the board of Stanford's [First-Generation and/or Low-Income Alumni Network (FLAN)](https://www.stanfordflan.com/) and mentors first generation and/or low income students at Harvard College.