Institute Research Team

Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies
Margaret O’Mara
Joint Venture has named Margaret O’Mara a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies, its research arm. Considered one of Silicon Valley’s foremost expositors, O’Mara is the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor at the University of Washington and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. An award-winning historian, she recently published a history of the Valley that is being hailed as definitive, The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019).

Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies
Karen Trapenberg Frick
Joint Venture has named Karen Trapenberg Frick a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Regional Studies, its research arm. An expert on transportation planning in the Bay Area and beyond, Professor Frick is the director of the University of California Transportation Center and a professor of city and regional planning at the Berkeley campus.







Academic Research Partners
Academic research groups working with the Institute on various regional health topics.
Stanford Future Bay Initiative

Community Researcher Partners
Partner organizations working on critical data-driven projects and programs affecting our region’s health and quality of life.
unBox Project
