So is a technical research analyst in MDRC’s K-12 Education policy area who focuses on improving educational equity, student achievement, college access, and diversified learning opportunities for K-12 students. Prior to joining MDRC, So worked as a data insights analyst at Democracy Prep Public Schools, where he analyzed student attrition, college matriculation and persistence patterns, and school performance indicators to support data-informed decision-making across schools. At MDRC, he has contributed to large-scale education evaluation studies involving high school redesign, social-emotional learning, career-focused pathways, reading interventions, and postsecondary outcomes, including the XQ Schools Study, STARI, Youth Force NOLA, U-GAIN, Multiple Measures Assessment study, and Kauffman Foundation’s Real World Learning initiative. His work primarily involves quasi-experimental evaluation methods, survey and administrative data processing and management, regression analyses, and data visualization tasks using R and SQL. So received his bachelor’s degree in criminology/sociology from John Jay College and completed his master’s degree in the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
