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Portland, Or, Us

Remote

Manage monitoring, evaluation & data science needs for our clients as part of Levoca’s end-to-end support for outcomes-based financing projects.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Implemented Mexico’s first nationally representative study of early childhood education (0-3 years old). Oversaw training of field staff members, designed survey forms, created real-time monitoring reports. Guaranteed fluid communication between survey teams and national/local service providers. Developed provider-specific protocols in collaboration with government counterparts, conducted initial outreach and followup with local service provider representatives to communicate project goals and respond to concerns as they arose in the field.Guaranteed data quality through high frequency checks and callbacks. Led integration of databases, data cleaning, construction of indexes (Principal Components and Factor Analysis), and descriptive analysis.Identified inequities in provision of public childcare services through comparative analysis of public data (ENSANUT México 2018) in collaboration with IADB analysts.Documented providers’ strengths and weaknesses through in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis.Ensured study design responded to project needs as they arose. Worked with sampling specialist to update and document selection protocols, as well as survey weights and sample parameters.Advanced policy discussions with national service providers through policy briefs, project reports, and roundtable conversations with high-level policymakers.Dynamically communicated study findings to policymakers through interactive data dashboards.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Built experimental design for Randomized Controlled Trial.-Wrote selection and randomization protocols based on pairwise matching strategy.-Worked with PI to finalize and document research methods.-Piloted and implemented baseline survey, including initial field protocols and hiring of field staff.-Constructed initial project data flow in Stata.Led all stages of project lifecycle for over 400 “photo journal” interviews, from survey design to data collection, transcription, and thematic analysis in NVivo.-Designed semi-structured interview format and tested interview guide through a series of iterative pilots. The purpose of this tool was to qualitively evaluate how the police legitimacy trainings changed officers' perceptions of their day-to-day activities through a conversation anchored in a series of photographs chosen by the interviewee.-Hired project supervisors/analysts, field staff, and transcriptionists.-Directed creation of field protocols and led staff training.-Created survey forms and real-time monitoring system.-Developed initial coding guide and node structure, worked with junior analysts on a weekly basis to ensure inter-coder calibration and expand node topics as new topics arose.-Worked with social psychologist to restructure thematic framework for second round of coding.-Created guide for project memos based on coded interviews.-Managed project timeline and budget, including rolling forecast of expenses. Completed project on time and under budget.Communicated progress on areas of project responsibility to Yale and State Department through quarterly reports.Expanded organizational capacity through hiring, training, and supervision of junior staff. Conducted performance reviews and adapted continuing education materials to lead trainings on Stata and SurveyCTO.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Crea contributes to business development opportunities for women enrepreneurs from socially and economically marginalized backgrounds, through evaluated business development services.Designed and implemented multiple small-scale surveys and focus groups to support new program development:-Social Impact Bond (proposal only): Assisted partners from IADB with definition of KPIs and effect sizes. Proposal to adapt bespoke DBMS to serve project's performance management needs. Worked with program staff to refine program design based on focus groups and analysis of survey pilot data.-Digital Skills Training: designed and implemented surveys and focus groups, then developed recommendations to adapt project proposal to the beneficiary needs. Worked with program staff and funder to implement recommendations.-Microfinance evaluation: designed baseline, follow-up survey and non-experimental design for pilot program that gave our business skills trainings to current beneficiaries of ProMujer's microfinance loans.-Business training: identified inequities in service provision through analysis of attrition data. Led discussions with senior program staff to increase graduation rates from 60% to 80%.Negotiated technical requirements of new programs in collaboration with project staff and created interactive dashboards ifor staff and partners to visualize KPIs.Led design and implementation organization’s first performance management (PM) system. Worked with data manager to adapt/expand DBMS capabilities, connect data to live dashboards.Ensured data collection quality for program evaluation (RCT) in collaboration with World Bank field coordinator. Enumerator training, field supervision, administrative data management.Spearheaded the creation of organization’s first operations manual. Led teambuilding workshops, mapped internal processes, and identified service bottlenecks to reduce administrative work by half.Hired as Manager, promoted to Director in February 2017.

Greater New York City Area

NYCEDC's Social Capital Desk bolsters the City's mission-driven organizations and broader impact ecosystem for strong communities and lasting economic growth.Generated proposal to support social service organizations with real estate needs. Key stakeholder interviews, mapping study with GIS team, presentations for decision makers.

Greater New York City Area

Art In Your Space engages teens with hands-on art and technology projects for professional clients in modern workspaces to prepare them for success in 21st century careers.Co-designed curriculum for 7-week high school physical computing courses with professional teaching artist. Completed 3 semesters with support from NYC Department of Education’s Digital Ready initiative.

Peru

Emzingo's NexGen Fellowship program combinines innovative leadership training with social impact consulting projects in emerging marketsDeveloped a business plan for local NGO Padma to launch a social enterprise, Puriy. Focus groups with beneficiaries, market entry analysis, modeled financial statements.

Portland, Oregon Area

Wrote profiles on innovations in international economic development. Republished by news agencies including NextBillion and Christian Science Monitor.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Taught English for adults, teens and business. Designed summer courses, gave exam prep and literature courses.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Translated and developed video material for the group's YouTube channel and gave live translation at meetings and conferences.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Primary school teaching to Chinese students. Gave masters degree English preparation classes, proofread government speeches, participated in language consulting projects and extracurricular English camps.

Led and trained teams to provide sound and video support for live events of up to 2,500 people.

Master’S Degree, Public Administration, 3.895/4.0

Activities and Societies: Bridge at Wagner (VP of External Affairs), NYU Entrepreneurs Network (VP of Communications), International.

Graduate Coursework In Applied Statistics, Statistics

Coursework in advanced applied statistical methods. Multiple regression, ANOVA (2-way and 3-way), ANCOVA, outlier analysis, nonlinear.

Post-Baccalaureate, Economics, Mathematics

Coursework in microeconomics, macroeconomics, single variable calculus.

Centro De Enseñanza Para Extranjeros, Spanish Language And Literature

Coursework in advanced Spanish language, Latin American literature and political science.

Ba, Spanish Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Wheaton College Media Resources, The Pub (Essay Editor, 2009-2010), Kodon (Assistant Poetry Editor.