Meet the Team

Dr. Xiana Bueno is a sociologist and family demographer and has conducted her research at the School of Public Health at Indiana University since 2021. She has previously done research at Harvard University and the Center for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. Dr. Bueno’s research focuses on abortion attitudes, family demography, and international migration. Her most recent research centers on developing measures to better assess attitudes toward abortion. She also studies how gender inequality, labor-market conditions, and family policies affect fertility decisions.  

Dr. Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez is an Assistant Research Scientist in the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Mena-Meléndez obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University. Her research focuses on abortion attitudes, sexual and reproductive health, child and maternal health, demographic methods, and mixed methodologies with a focus on the United States and in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this project, she seeks to assess the experiences of self-managed abortion among Latinx migrants in the United States to produce evidence that may help improve reproductive health access and delivery.  

Kristen N. Jozkowski is an M-PI on the Indiana University Abortion Attitudes Project (IUAPP) and the William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual Health in the Department of Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington. She is also a Senior Scientist with the Kinsey Institute. Her research focuses on abortion attitude measurement and sexual consent and sexual refusal communication, specifically how gender norms and alcohol intoxication influence sexual consent. She earned her PhD in Health Behavior with minors in Mixed Research Methods and Sexuality from Indiana University in 2011. 

Brandon Crawford is an M-PI on the Indiana University Abortion Attitudes Project (IUAPP) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma in 2017. His main areas of research include the measurement of attitudes regarding controversial social issues and examining the relationship between child maltreatment, child welfare experiences, and adverse life events throughout the life-course. He has expertise in the analysis of secondary data (including data with complex survey designs), survey development, and quantitative analyses. 

Margarita Martínez-Osorio is a historian from Bogotá, Colombia. In 2014, she earned a B.A. in Philosophy and in 2015 a B.A. in History from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. Since 2020, she holds an M.A. degree in History from Indiana University, Bloomington. Before starting her studies at IU, Margarita worked as a researcher in the Colombian based think-tank of human rights, Dejusticia, studying gender inequalities in Colombia, sexual and reproductive rights, and the gender impacts of the Colombian peace process. In 2018, she started her doctoral studies in Latin American History at Indiana University sponsored by the Fulbright-Colciencias scholarship. Her current research focuses on the intersections between gender and citizenship in rural Colombia during the 20th century.