Jennie E. Brand is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Professor of Statistics and Data Science (by courtesy). She is Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS) at UCLA. Brand is President of the Association of Population Centers (APC). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Population Association of America (PAA), and is Vice-President (and incoming President) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28). She is a member of the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys Program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Brand studies social stratification and inequality, mobility, social demography, education, and methods for causal inference. 

Brand was elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA), an honor society for excellence in research, in 2019, received the ASA Methodology Leo Goodman Mid-Career Award in 2016, and received an honorable mention for the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility William Julius Wilson Mid-Career Award in 2014. 

Brand previously served as the Director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR). She has also served as Chair of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Chair of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of ASA, and served on the councils of the ASA Methodology, Sociology of Education, and Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility sections, as well as serving on the Board of Directors for RC28. She was previously a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey (GSS). She has served as Associate Editor of AAAS’s Science Advances, the open-access extension of Science magazine, and on the editorial boards of Social Forces, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Science, American Sociological Review, Demography, and SAGE Research Methods.