Sierra is an independent consultant focused on applying quantitative analysis to human rights work in Latin America. She was a Data Science & Human Rights Intern at HRDAG during Summer 2022. More recently, she has worked as a research assistant at the Human Trafficking Data Lab at Stanford University and as a Data Analyst at Mexican NGO Data Cívica.

Sierra holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with a minor in Data Science from Stanford University and hopes to research supervised models of clandestine grave distributions in grad school starting this fall (2026). In her free time, she enjoys hiking, biking, taking care of her plants, and making pickles and kombucha.

Sierra is on LinkedIn. Sierra’s 2022 reflection: HRDAG Retreat 2022