Eman Al-Taher

Data Analyst II
Eman supports the Special Education department and is responsible for setting up systems for collecting and organizing student data. Eman creates systems to ensure data quality and consistency across different student information systems (SEIS and AERIES). She also creates Data Literacy courses to help the Special Education department develop the foundational data knowledge needed to  support and streamline day-to-day projects. 

Email her at eman.altaher@ousd.org.

Laura Augustus

Human Capital Reporting Specialist
Laura is our point person for staff data needs, including credentials data, recruitment data, and staff-related Public Records Act requests. She is responsible for creating operational reports as well as strategic analyses for the Board of Education and OUSD leadership. ​

Email her at ​laura.augustus@ousd.org.

Juan Du

Director of Data
Juan is the Data Team's former Statistician and current Director. Juan coordinates the work of the Data Team which includes facilitating cross departmental partnerships, guiding the team's improvement work, and standardizing our team's data processes. 

Email her at juan.du@ousd.org.

Hailey Jordan

ECE Research Associate ​
Hailey joins the RAD team as Research Associate, Early Childhood. She is responsible for setting up systems for collecting and analyzing assessment data, creating operational reports and strategic analyses, and conducting mixed methods program evaluations.  Hailey is passionate about promoting educational equity and mental well-being among youth of color via mixed methods research.

Email her at hailey.jordan@ousd.org.

Scout Leonard

Data Analyst II
Scout supports Community Schools and Student Services (CSSS) and Oakland Goes Outdoors (OGO) as a Data Analyst. Scout brings experience in data analysis and data visualization to her work, which includes the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), Afterschool Programs, and Coordination of Services Team (COST) data.

Email her at
scout.leonard@ousd.org.

Christina McClain

Statistician
Christina is a Data Analyst supporting Community Schools and Student Services (CSSS) and also serves as Salesforce System Administrator. She works extensively with California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) and Coordination of Services Team (COST) data. ​

Email her at
​christina.mcclain@ousd.org.

Rinat Fried

Research Associate
Rinat provide data support for elementary schools, focusing on literacy assessments. 

Email her at rinat.fried@ousd.org.

Susan Radke

Mapping Analytics Specialist
Susan is our Mapping Analytics Specialist. She is our point person for all data that relates to census demographics, and school and student location. She provides the District's geocoding and data analysis for research and administration of current and future enrollment projections. 

Email her at susan.radke@ousd.or

Kevin Schmidke

Data Analyst II
Kevin is our high school data specialist focusing on Course grades, A-G requirements, SAT, on track to graduation, Linked Learning, college enrollment, etc. Kevin can help provide data support and analysis for OUSD's high school related needs.

Email him at kevin.schmidke@ousd.org.

Kevin Smith

Data Analyst II
Kevin Smith has been working in OUSD since 2005 and is a generalist for the team. He is presently the point person for data work in the following areas: Chronic Absence and Attendance, Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), Reading Inventory (SRI) and outside data requests from non-OUSD researchers.  

Email him at kevin.smith@ousd.org.

JAMES THARP

BI Data Architect
Jay is our architect for daily data transformations from the Aeries SIS used in most of our Tableau dashboards.  He integrates student-level data from CALPADS and SBAC into a 200-column Excel “Comprehensive Student Data Roster”, updated every 30 days.  He’s keen on data quality, governance, automation, and documentation: keys to decision-support and accountability.  

Email him at james.tharp@ousd.org.

Gerald Williams

Research Associate
Gerald is the District Research Associate focused on Disproportionality and the data point person for The Office of Equity. Gerald’s primary responsibility are to design tools, conduct field study, analyze different types of data, fulfill external requests related to focus areas and implement findings in support of culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy. He is also involved in the design, collection, analysis and production of District surveys and internal evaluations.

​Email him at gerald.williams@ousd.org.

Rattana Yeang

Data Analyst II
Rattana is our point person for English Language Learner, Newcomer, and Reclassification data. He is our in-house Graphic Designer and is responsible for designing our District's Fast Facts, Data Team website and various other reports and infographics.

Email him at rattana.yeang@ousd.org.