Doug Williams is a pre-doc at UChicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He graduated from UChicago in 2024, double majoring in data science and public policy. He has been part of an interdisciplinary team to customize UC Berkeley's course "Sense & Sensibility & Science" for UChicago in spring 2024 and 2025. The course lets students experience how they can use scientific thinking to improve individual and collective decisions in a democracy.