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Ann Arbor, MI, US

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Provide project management support for a diverse portfolio that includes over 20 active projects
• Co-developed and implement processes to standardize project management, including data specification forms and documentation, data analysis documentation processes, project reporting practices, and dissemination.
• Support and track institutional regulatory compliance
• Facilitate engagement of diverse stakeholders in individual projects including clinicians, faculty advisors, data support, and quality improvement staff and coordinate their activities
• Manage activities of data team members to coordinate their activities and ensure timely data extraction and analysis that matches the needs of clinician clients
• Develop and ensure adherence to individual timelines of projects to ensure timely completion

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Developed and published website to help communicate with future clinician clients what our program does and why they would choose to participate, with over 200 views in first month
• Designed and implemented user-friendly intake form to engage potential clinician clients in our program
• Designed and built citation database for equity-related research in health care
• Drafted reports on equity-related topics to support research projects and grant materials

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Provided authors in early- and mid-stage writing with the tools to tackle ambiguous and exploratory questions left open by their data
• Translated complex, technical, and specialized information into digestible, concise language accessible to diverse audiences
• Delivered support for junior authors to complete graduate degree requirements and senior authors to publish work

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Served as research consultant on National Institute of Justice Sentinel Events Demonstration Project
• Collaborated to research and refine innovative program aimed at reducing unintended criminal justice outcomes
• Reviewed and updated research protocols to ensure collected data met research aims
• Conducted field observation, interviews, and surveys with stakeholders to evaluate program implementation
• Achieved goal of providing early-stage, data-driven recommendations on how to increase stakeholder buy-in and improve implementation as program expandedServed as research consultant in local effort to address the.
• Met with stakeholders to identify perceived gaps in response to offenders with mental illness and devise research goals that would meet stakeholders' needs

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Evaluated new and expanding mental health court program from standpoint of staff and users
• Led end-to-end research on program, including designing and executing research plans, success metrics, budget & data management plans, recruitment strategies, interview and ethnographic guides, and analysis strategies
• Built consensus among stakeholders from different organizations to study hard-to-access populations
• Innovated on prior approaches by employing diverse qualitative methods that effectively tracked user journeys through systems and pain points, unearthing new insights
• Hired, trained, and led research team in coding and analysis
• Produced foundational knowledge on user personas, how users differently navigate programming, and program implementation to enable: (a) more targeted research moving forward and (b) advancements in programming

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Designed and executed lesson plans in topics related to criminology, health and healthcare, and research methods
• Engaged multiple sections of up to 25 students each semester through diverse pedagogical strategies including facilitating large and small group discussions, case-based teaching, group work, interactive websites.
• Developed assignments with rubrics and evaluated completed work
• Trained and supervised students in designing individual research projects
• Consistently high evaluation scores, placing in top 25% of instructors in a given semester

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Served as research analyst on multiple projects, including:Michigan Study of Life After Prison
• Collaborated on research teams to design coding schema, conduct coding, triangulate data sources, and conduct multiple analyses, as well as hired and supervised research assistants to support coding work
• Collaborated in producing key deliverables, including multiple publications in highly ranked journals Work After Prison Study
• Conducted coding and analysis of interviews to meet analysis goals of tracking needs and pain points of former prisoners linked to transitional jobsMichigan Mental Health Court Evaluation
• Conducted semi-structured interviews with court program users to provide an in-depth understanding of the user experience as part of a broader program evaluation relying primarily on quantitative benchmarks

Lansing, Michigan, United States

Ph.D., Sociology

Master'S Degree, Social Sciences

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Theory And Social Policy

Graduated from Honor's College and from James Madison College with honors