Arabella Velleux is a mathematician, educator, and public policy researcher whose work focuses on applying quantitative and demographic methods to issues of inequality, public safety, and social policy. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and is pursuing an M.S. in Applied Economics en route.

Her research centers on population processes relating to criminal justice, public health, and structural inequality, with a particular interest in reentry, incarceration, and disparities in mortality and safety outcomes. Arabella employs demographic techniques, econometric methods, and large-scale administrative data to study how institutional systems shape population-level outcomes and policy effectiveness. She is currently affiliated with the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice at the University of Minnesota, where her work examines racial disparities in drowning mortality and other public safety outcomes.

Arabella has served as an adjunct faculty member at Red Lake Nation College, where she taught mathematics and supported Indigenous students pursuing higher education in STEM and quantitative social science fields. She previously served as an AmeriCorps Public Health member working with individuals reentering society after incarceration.

Her long-term research agenda focuses on integrating demographic methods, econometrics, and critical policy analysis to better understand how institutions shape inequality across populations and to inform evidence-based policy reform.