Dahlia Tarver

Dahlia Tarver is a first-year Master’s of Social Policy and Data Analytics student at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, where she was awarded the prestigious SP2 Scholarship. She is passionate about leveraging mixed-methods research to evaluate community-centered programs and inform social policy, and currently serves as an Evaluation Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships and a Research Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania’s School for Social Policy and Practice’s Race and Social Policy Lab, where she works at the intersections of data-driven policy and community-based programs. Dahlia also serves as a Teaching Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Global Youth Program, where she mentors and teaches high school students critical personal finance concepts. Prior to her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Dahlia obtained her Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Spelman College, where she was awarded the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation Scholarship, Quarterman-Keller Scholarship, and a Social Justice Fellowship. In addition to her undergraduate studies at Spelman College, Dahlia served as a research assistant at Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative, The People Lab at Harvard University, and the UPLIFT Study at the Georgia Institute of Technology.