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. She studies social stratification and inequality, mobility, social demography, education, and methods for causal inference. 

Brand is President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Population Association of America (PAA). She was elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA), an honor society for excellence in research, in 2019. She received the ASA Methodology Leo Goodman Mid-Career Award in 2016 and an honorable mention for the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility William Julius Wilson Mid-Career Award in 2014, as well as numerous distinguished book and article awards. 

Brand previously served as the Director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR), and served as President of the Association of Population Centers (APC). 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 multiple ASA councils, and the Board of Directors for RC28. She was previously a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey (GSS) and a member of the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys Program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.. She has served as Associate Editor of AAAS’s Science Advances, the open-access extension of Science magazine, and on multiple editorial boards.

She is author of Overcoming the Odds. The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates.