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Design and contribute to annual reports and impact reports disseminated to UVM administration, federal agencies, and community partners. Represent the Leahy Institute at community events and summits, assist in the marketing for Institute programs, and conduct on-site visits to our grant awardees.

Managed social media presence, created blog content, oversaw website updates, and assisted in the planning of UVM Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability (RISE) Summit.

Provide guidance and support for students in Applied Research Methods—a class that teaches methods used in the collection and analysis of quantitative data through critical review of literature, data collection, and analysis. Tasks included grading weekly assignments, holding office hours, and assisting with IBM SPSS Statistics Lab.

Responsible for updating company website, event reporting, writing program newsletter, managing social media accounts, and salesforce data entry.

Worked under the supervision of Dr. Trisha Shrum to create a validated tool to measure pro-environmental behavior. My tasks included editing and researching pre-existing scales and measurement methods to help supplement our survey, writing an R script to analyze survey results, and fitting our data to the Rasch statistical model in RStudio.

Assisted the research unit in analyzing data from two studies conducted in Zambia, focusing on the impact of entertainment-education on awareness of critical issues such as public health, population control, and environmental protection. My tasks included revising survey materials and creating data visualizations in RStudio and QGIS