Daniel Polk is a researcher who focuses on social equity and environmental health. He is a Research and Evaluation Associate at HARC, a community research nonprofit that provides data for the public good, with a focus on the social determinants of health. He has worked on numerous local research projects, including studies on childhood asthma near the Salton Sea and air quality perceptions in the Coachella Valley.

He earned a bachelor’s in history from UC Riverside and a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Princeton University. He has carried out work in the United States and Latin America, with experience in archival, statistical, and ethnographic research. He is especially interested in how multiracial working-class solidarity can overcome entrenched challenges to democracy and to solving the climate crisis