Miranda Dietz (she/her) is interim director of the health care program at the Labor Center. Her health care research focuses on health care affordability and coverage in California. Miranda’s work includes analysis of consumer affordability trends in California, the impact of the Affordable Care Act and Medi-Cal expansion in the state, and estimates of the uninsured. She serves as vice chair of the Data Release Committee for the state’s Health Payments Database. As project director for the California Simulation of Insurance Markets microsimulation model (CalSIM), developed jointly with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, she has modeled and analyzed the impacts of various policies on health insurance coverage in California. Miranda has also written on local enforcement of labor standards, low-wage airport workers, and temporary workers in California. She is co-editor with Michael Reich and Ken Jacobs of When Mandates Work: Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level. Miranda received a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley in 2012, and a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University.