Ainsley Lotito is an Assistant Risk Assessment Scientist with a Master of Public Health from the Colorado School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her academic training emphasized public health research methods, including epidemiologic study design, biostatistics, environmental epidemiology, and data management. She has extensive experience developing statistical models, managing datasets, and creating reproducible analyses using R, SAS, and ArcGIS.

As a Research Assistant at Colorado State University, Ainsley led several studies examining substance use patterns and motor vehicle crash outcomes among California youths. She also worked as a student researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, contributing to quantitative analyses and primary data collection for a mixed-methods study investigating health care retention and prognostic factors among individuals diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorders.