Andrea Lane Eastman is a Research Associate Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. She is currently leading a portfolio of research funded through grants from the Reissa Foundation and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and stewarding a number of new data partnerships, including with the Los Angeles County Probation Department. Dr. Eastman is also Project Co-Director of the Transition Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub at UC Berkeley with Professor Mark Courtney. The Transition Age Youth Hub is being developed to support the capacity of the California Department of Social Services and county child welfare agencies to use research to improve policy and practice targeting transition age youth living in and exiting foster care. Her scholarship has been informed by her previous work in the California State Senate where she served as a legislative aide and committee consultant on several state initiatives surrounding health and human services and public safety. She graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s in Psychology, received her master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University, and earned a PhD in Social Work from USC. While obtaining her master’s degree, she provided therapy for families who experienced child maltreatment.