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• Partner with Metro’s Senior Leadership Team and scholar community to implement a cross-functional impact strategy, including designing customized impact frameworks, identifying priority metrics, and building systems to.
• Serve as the program’s primary Salesforce administrator, leveraging the tool to support our impact strategy.
• Launched and led an institution-wide Impact & Analytics Community of Practice to build alignment around a common… Show more
• Launched and led an institution-wide Impact & Analytics Community of Practice to build alignment around a common definition of impact and work toward a data-informed institutional strategy. Show less

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Designed a holistic monitoring & evaluation framework to continually build upon existing impact metrics and create a feedback loop for insights about research and communications strategies.
• Created a set of tutorials and templates to allow research assistants and other staff to use Adobe Illustrator to replicate my process for preparing data visualizations built in Excel, R, and Stata for the web.
• Supported the data & analytics needs of 40+ economists: fulfilled requests for ad hoc… Show more
• Supported the data & analytics needs of 40+ economists: fulfilled requests for ad hoc reports, design static and interactive data visualizations to support research, built regular reports on key department metrics.
• Served as the department’s IT liaison, providing technical support and training to staff, working closely with the Brookings technology service desk. Show less

Developed a relational database, workflows, and dashboards in Quickbase to enhance the efficiency and internal awareness of department business processes and measure impact to inform future work.(Other responsibilities described in Sr. level above)

• Redesigned the department-wide system for editorial calendar management, clarifying roles and procedures and designing an interim system in Trello to facilitate internal communication
• Digitized and automated the department’s Conflict of Interest procedure for external authors, significantly reducing the administrative burden of compliance with institutional policies
• Coordinated the department’s migration to Sharepoint and designed an internal Sharepoint site as a hub for program… Show more
• Coordinated the department’s migration to Sharepoint and designed an internal Sharepoint site as a hub for program resources
• Managed the Economic Studies Twitter account and weekly newsletter
• Produced static and interactive data visualizations for publication on Brookings.edu Show less

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Streamlined the Hamilton Project's paper publication process by researching and incorporating a tool to allow for simultaneous text editing and formatting in InDesign
• Designed a monthly web analytics template centered around data visualizations that gathered relevant data points from Google Analytics and other tools to track ongoing production and impact
• Built publication-ready interactive data visualizations to communicate complex datasets and findings using R and… Show more
• Built publication-ready interactive data visualizations to communicate complex datasets and findings using R and D3.js
• Managed the Hamilton Project website, including regular web posting and vendor management Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted exploratory and descriptive data analysis in R, Stata and Excel using publicly available datasets to inform research narratives
• Managed multiple, concurrent research processes, interfacing with external authors, coordinating contracts, communicating updates, and ensuring adherence to research, writing, review, and layout requirements
• Identified $20k+ in annual cost savings by proposing a plan for the team to move production of interactive data visualizations and research… Show more
• Identified $20k+ in annual cost savings by proposing a plan for the team to move production of interactive data visualizations and research paper layout in-house Show less

• Developed internal programming including large-scale events and trainings to build community and advance the use of data science tools and methodologies in Brookings research
• Recruited members for and led the Data Network Steering Committee; managed the Data Network annual budget.
• Met regularly with IT engineers to convey and address data infrastructure challenges and streamline the end user experience for conducting quantitative research at Brookings.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Evanston, IL

Evanston, IL

Master’S Degree, Quantitative Methods In The Social Sciences

Coursework: -Data Visualization -Social Network Analysis -Data Analysis for the Social Sciences -Data Mining for the Social Sciences -GIS.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Social Policy

Activities and Societies: NU Living Wage Campaign, NU Public Interest Program, NU Votes

Education record

Activities and Societies: Ice Hockey, Mock Trial, Young Democrats, National Honor Society