Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski is a PhD student in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, broadly interested in how families form under pressure, what holds them together, and what gets carried forward to the next generation. Prior to population research, she worked as a software engineer and data scientist in NYC, San Francisco, and Sierra Leone, and taught math and programming in various settings globally. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Data Science from the University of Helsinki, and most recently completed the European Doctoral School of Demography, co-hosted between the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany and INED in France.