I recently moved back to NYC after living in Minnesota for nine years. I’m a data scientist, housing entrepreneur, and St. Paul community organizer. Currently, I'm looking for job opportunities in the public sector and community-orientated organizations. I'm an eager learner and team player. I'm the type of person that is willing to knock on doors!Currently, I’ll be building my data analysis portfolio through open-data projects in NYC and continuing to engage the local community. Some career highlights include:→ MS Agricultural & Resource Economics from UC Berkeley→ Database admin, researcher & lead SQL programmer for third-largest school district in Minnesota→ self-learned programmer and founder of St. Paul Data Open Data Initiative, which led to community discussion of crime, and legislation being passed→ housing entrepreneur (PreLease SBC). Accepted to the Lunar Startups Accelerator and 2023 MN CUP semi-finalists. I've completed 30 renter consultations.→ organized local cleanups with over 100 volunteers, including directly after the George Floyd civil unrest→ organized a successful political petition (1600+ signatures) that led to MN legislation being passed → was engaged in local district council plus three non-profit boards→ 2021 St Paul Mayoral Candidate (1500+ Votes)→ Clifton Strengths Finder (2022) top five attributes: Restorative, Futuristic, Connectedness, Strategic, and Ideation.→ was a local community superhero (feel free to ask)Hard Skills: I'm a programmer (SQL, R, and python), social science researcher, data scientist, and team player. I enjoy working on challenging problems and constructing new algorithms. When designing a data product, the user should be empowered and increase their competency in working with data.
