Kara Takasaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 4273852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kara Takasaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kara |
| FAMILY NAME | Takasaki |
| SIGNATURE | TAKASAKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7278-1622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recognizing, reinforcing, and strengthening community capacity through researcher–community partnerships
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A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking
This paper describes a process that integrates behavioral and decision science methods to design and evaluate interventions to disrupt illicit behaviors. We developed this process by extending a framework used to study systems with uncertain outcomes, where only partial information is observable, and wherein there are multiple participating parties with competing goals. The extended framework that we propose builds from artefactual data collectio…
Finding a job
Wage Theft and Work Safety
Immigrant day laborers routinely experience exploitative behaviors as part of their employment. These day laborers perceive the exploitation they experience in the context of their immigration histories and in the context of their long-term goals for better working and living conditions. Using mixed methods, over three data collection periods in 2016, 2019 and 2020, we analyze the work experiences of immigrant day laborers in Houston and Austin, …
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce
Stop Aapi Hate Reporting Center
The Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center that emerged alongside the COVID-19 pandemic is a model of collaborative partnership between academic researchers and community organizations. The center is a community-driven tool that collects self-reports of racist incidents that Asian Americans have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The center uses the data collected to advocate for policy responses to anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. Recognizing c…
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce
Stop Aapi Hate Reporting Center
The Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center that emerged alongside the COVID-19 pandemic is a model of collaborative partnership between academic researchers and community organizations. The center is a community-driven tool that collects self-reports of racist incidents that Asian Americans have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The center uses the data collected to advocate for policy responses to anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. Recognizing c…
A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking
This paper describes a process that integrates behavioral and decision science methods to design and evaluate interventions to disrupt illicit behaviors. We developed this process by extending a framework used to study systems with uncertain outcomes, where only partial information is observable, and wherein there are multiple participating parties with competing goals. The extended framework that we propose builds from artefactual data collectio…
Finding a job
Stop Aapi Hate Reporting Center
The Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center that emerged alongside the COVID-19 pandemic is a model of collaborative partnership between academic researchers and community organizations. The center is a community-driven tool that collects self-reports of racist incidents that Asian Americans have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The center uses the data collected to advocate for policy responses to anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. Recognizing c…
Making Merit Work at the Entrance to the Engineering Workforce
Wage Theft and Work Safety
Immigrant day laborers routinely experience exploitative behaviors as part of their employment. These day laborers perceive the exploitation they experience in the context of their immigration histories and in the context of their long-term goals for better working and living conditions. Using mixed methods, over three data collection periods in 2016, 2019 and 2020, we analyze the work experiences of immigrant day laborers in Houston and Austin, …
A Framework to Develop Interventions to Address Labor Exploitation and Trafficking
This paper describes a process that integrates behavioral and decision science methods to design and evaluate interventions to disrupt illicit behaviors. We developed this process by extending a framework used to study systems with uncertain outcomes, where only partial information is observable, and wherein there are multiple participating parties with competing goals. The extended framework that we propose builds from artefactual data collectio…
Finding a job
Unfree
Recognizing, reinforcing, and strengthening community capacity through researcher–community partnerships
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Career Development and Diversity (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)