About Jason

Jason grew up understanding the challenges working families face. As a Pell Grant recipient and work-study student at UMass Amherst, he balanced his studies with employment at the Political Economy Research Institute, where he worked alongside economists researching living wage policies. This experience shaped his commitment to economic justice — he even published a policy brief on inflation-adjusting the Massachusetts minimum wage before graduating.

After graduating from UMass Amherst, Jason worked as a Research Assistant at Harvard University and MIT before pursuing graduate studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science with a Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow. With postdoctoral experience at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jason lives in Sherborn and designs evaluation frameworks for frontier AI systems. His research has been published in leading journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Statistics in Medicine, and Statistics and Public Policy. You can learn more about his research at https://poulos.ai/.

Why Jason is Running

As someone who has spent years studying how technology and policy intersect, Jason has seen firsthand how rapid technological change threatens to displace millions of workers while concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few tech giants. He's running for Congress because we need representatives who understand these challenges and are willing to fight for progressive solutions.

Jason is a product of public education — Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, UMass Amherst, and UC Berkeley — and will work to protect and expand public education. At Harvard University, Jason was a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which represents clerical and technical staff across the university. At UC Berkeley, he was a member of UAW Local 2865, the union representing graduate student workers across the University of California system.

As a UAW 2865 member, Jason participated in union elections, including the 2014 vote on a resolution in support of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) targeting companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. UAW 2865 became one of the first major U.S. labor unions to pass a BDS resolution. That experience reinforced his belief that unions are not just about wages and working conditions — they are vehicles for workers to exercise collective power on broader questions of justice and solidarity. He will work to protect and expand union access, including passing the PRO Act.

He believes that government has a responsibility to protect workers, ensure everyone has quality healthcare, stand up for human rights abroad, hold law enforcement accountable, and treat all living beings with compassion.

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