Adriana Scanteianu is a first-year doctoral student in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MSc in Social Statistics from the London School of Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics from Rutgers University. Adriana is passionate about applying quantitative methods to the study of social issues and has previously worked in a number of non-profit organizations as a researcher, coordinator, and educator. She is a recipient of the U.S. Fulbright Scholarship and the NIH T32 Training Grant, as well as a co-founder of True Inclusion LLC., a start-up DEI consulting firm within the sphere of higher education. Her prior research spans the fields of computational biology, quantum mechanics, and reproductive health, and she is currently studying the impact of reproductive history on cognition and aging in rural Malawi.