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Denver, Colorado, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Built a content-based recommendation system using Python and BigQuery in GCP (Standard SQL) that suggests the five most similar social service programs to a findhelp.org user viewing a given program. Designed a z-score index and accompanying dashboard in Sisense to visualize and determine unmet public demand for social services such that the internal Community Engagement team could identify where new programs are most needed.

Gaborone, Botswana

Developed and integrated an organization-wide research agenda to maximize Young 1ove’s program impact, including rapid impact evaluations and A/B testing. Launched a data-driven decision-making process for improving program curricula, leading to triple the treatment effect size for an HIV prevention program and a 80% reduction in innumeracy for a remedial education program.

Gaborone, Botswana

Automated Youth Impact’s processes for cleaning and analyzing data in Stata for over 15,000 students. Led 25-person organization’s technical development through workshops on research design and statistical analysis. Created Tableau dashboards used for day-to-day decisions related to data quality, facilitator performance, curriculum development, and program impact.

New York, United States

Defined, collected, and analyzed beneficiary feedback data for 7 independent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine the predictive power of beneficiary feedback on program impact. For each RCT, provided in-country support to teams through programming and testing surveys, designing data collection schedules, and setting up data monitoring systems. In-country support provided in Ghana, Uganda, and the Dominican Republic.

Rundu, Namibia

Oversaw data collection for the endline survey of a multi-year evaluation of a rangeland management project in northern Namibia for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, including survey design and programming, data collection tracking, data quality monitoring, and team training and management.

New Haven, Ct

Served as a research analyst for Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics at Yale University (now at Northwestern University) and President and Founder of IPA, working on RCTs spanning several continents and topics including a six-country multi-faceted graduation program, a multi-country savings reminder program, and a smoking cessation program in Connecticut.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Master Of Science In Computational Analysis & Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis

The University of Chicago’s rigorous two-year Master of Science in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MSCAPP) program, among.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, Mathematics

Economics