Tai Tworek is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Center on Poverty and Inequality, coming to CPI through the IRiSS Predoctoral Researchers Program. She works in CPI's California Lab to develop an administrative-data-based, next-generation poverty measure for California. A graduate of Brown University in the Social Analysis and Research program, Tai has research interests in racial inequality and stratification, segregation, and spatial methods.