Meet Our Team
Sanaz Mobasseri
Faculty Lead (she/hers)
Sanaz Mobasseri is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Her research investigates how organizational and social network processes shape gender and race differences amongst employees in the workplace. She does this by examining the roles of culture, cognition, and emotion in organizations using field experimental and computational research methodologies.
Sanaz completed her PhD in the Management of Organizations Department at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Prior to her PhD, she worked in finance in the U.S. and U.K. Sanaz also holds a M.P.P. from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Hannah McKinney
Project Director (she/hers)
With experience in startups and tech consulting, Hannah brings an on-the-ground lens to POP Lab’s research aims of moving the needle towards equity at work.
Hannah's social justice pursuits have focused on women’s rights, juvenile justice, death penalty reform, and international death row conditions. She has had the privilege to work on these topics at organizations including Be Girl, The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, the ACLU’s National Prison Project, and The Advocates for Human Rights.
Hannah earned her M.P.P. from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, where she studied the gender wage gap and women’s rights, and her B.A. in American Studies from Cornell University. Beyond work, Hannah is a voracious reader, podcast recommender, and houseplant connoisseur.
Dawn Graham
Data Scientist (they/them)
Dawn's background encompasses extensive work centering transformative social justice, wellness, and gender and racial equity. With experiences ranging from facilitating participatory design processes with youth media organizations across Chicago to contributing as a data engineer at a Fortune 100 company, Dawn brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to our research. They completed their MS in Computer Science at BU, a BA in Gender Studies and BFA in Art Studio from the University of Kentucky, and graduate coursework in Transformative Social Work at University of Vermont.
Anusha Rahman
Research Coordinator (she/hers)
Anusha's previous research experience centers around sexual violence prevention and intervention, adolescent suicide and depression, and the efficacy of digital health interventions and applications. She has also worked in operations, business development, and in various clinical & crisis-related roles.
Her passions include promoting racial and gender equity and furthering people-centered research. She hopes to pursue a graduate degree in organizational behavior and social impact; her goal is to foster a world where individuals feel safe in their personal and professional lives, without fear of inequities and harassment.
At POP Lab, Anusha supports all our projects. She provides research and writing support, coordinates research at field sites, and helps foster partner relationships. Outside of work, you can find her reading, exploring coffee shops, and walking around the city.
Our Collaborators
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard Kennedy School
Robin Ely, Harvard Business School
Ashley Martin, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Janet Xu, Stanford Graduate School of Business
William Kahn, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Charles Chu, Boston University Questrom School of Business
David Holtz, University of Berkeley Haas
Nina Roussille, MIT Economics
Ivuoma Onyeador, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Mabel Abraham, Columbia Business School
Kinga Makovi, New York University Abu Dhabi