Cristobal Pinto Poehls
Analytics Manager
Expertise
Cristobal Pinto Poehls is an Analytics Manager for the Education Lab and Crime Lab, where he works across a portfolio of projects in partnership with government agencies and local non-profits. His work includes several RCT evaluations in the areas of violence prevention, mental health, and education with a focus on young adults both inside and outside of the classroom. Cristobal also supports the Labs in managing the data team and in building our infrastructure for data analytics work.
Cristobal holds a bachelor’s degree and a professional degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Chile, and an MPP from the University of Chicago. He has more than 10 years of experience working with large datasets and applied data analysis. Before coming to Chicago in 2015, he worked for 2 years as a Research Associate for J-PAL Latin America.
Randomized evaluation of a school-based, trauma-informed group intervention for young women in Chicago
Science Advances journal publication.
Working on Womanhood
In 2017, the University of Chicago Education Lab partnered with the Mayor’s Office, Chicago Public Schools and Youth Guidance to understand the effects of Youth Guidance’s Working on Womanhood program as part of the Mayor’s Mentoring Initiative.
Genesys Works
The Education Lab is evaluating the impact of Genesys Works, an education and workforce development program that aims to improve high school achievement, college enrollment, college persistence, employment, and earnings.
Choose to Change
The Choose to Change program combines trauma-informed therapy with wraparound supports with the goal of reducing youth violence while improving educational outcomes outside of an institutional setting.
