Daron Holman Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

● Estimate the impact of a microfinance program targeting low-income Hispanic women through data transformation, merging, analysis, and significance testing using SAS, SQL, R, and Excel● Analyze how welfare participation changes through time and when targeted interventions could have the most benefit by performing a funnel analysis in R that modeled when welfare participants were most likely to exit the program● Write technical memos and document code to verify technical procedures, quantitative analysis, and data reporting are up to federal standards and for internal quality assurance● Manage the publication of three microfinance research reports by coordinating tasks, deadlines, and communications across the analytics and editorial teams and designing tables and exhibits for effective storytelling● Create structured guides for stakeholders to strategize methods, approaches, and research feasibility to optimize funding and analytical decisions for public policy research studies ● Create outcome measures, restructure data files (with up to 7,200,000 observations and 150 variables), perform data cleaning operations and various forms of data analysis using SAS, SQL and R to evaluate the impact of social programs and digital interventions.● Reduced risk of data disclosure by 4% by implementing mathematical methods and performing hypothesis testing in R to determine the extent that welfare participant confidentiality is improved

Washington D.C. Metro Area

● Surveyed 110+ employees across 75 public service agencies to identify and report common themes of operation and implementation challenges to agency leadership by developing Qualtrics surveys and analyzing results in SAS● Designed an educational curriculum on youth empowerment based on project data analysis and literature focused on participant voice and how youth access social benefit programs

Greater Seattle Area

● Identified strategies for improved poverty alleviation by consolidating poverty and demographic information from the past three years of data gathered from UWKC’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program and measuring the impact the Earned Income Tax Credit had on UWKC tax filers● Increased savings for low-income adults by coordinating and implementing tax time saving strategies and materials with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau● Assisted in securing a $1 million grant to pilot strategies for financial savings at community colleges by conducting literature reviews on benefits access for community college students

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

● Analyzed eight focus group interviews of graduating or recently graduated community college students to identify common themes of success for such students in North Carolina ● Contributed to Advancing a Culture of Success in the North Carolina Community College System, a study that draws upon student narratives from four diverse community colleges in North Carolina to identify common factors of success and offers recommendations to increase community college success rates, to be published in Spring 2016

Chapel Hill, Nc

● Planned, facilitated, and supervised weekly service-based reflections, leadership workshops and capacity building seminars● Helped evaluate and select a new class of Bonner Leaders● Planned and executed engaging programming that fosters community within the Bonner Program● Helped better integrate the Bonner Leaders Program into the greater Campus Y by collaborating on different projects with Campus Y committees ● Increased the visibility of the Bonner Program on UNC's campus by discussing the Bonner Program with incoming and prospective students● Along with the other senior interns and Director, redesigned the 4-year curriculum of the program● Collaborate with other Bonner Programs at various campuses in North Carolina through activities like the 2nd-Year Exchange● Completed an annual service requirement of approximately 270 hours

Chapel Hill, Nc

● Helped create and balance budgets of monthly fundraising and community events● Organized Jackson Center website content logically and implemented widgets to increase user-friendly access● Created a system of organizing and storing transcribed oral histories for future use by college students and community members● Performed and transcribed oral histories about local Chapel Hill community members● Organized and directed volunteers to transport local residents to voting polls ● Developed an education curriculum about the local history of Chapel Hill and optimized the curriculum to appeal to 4th grade school children and local community members● Coordinated meetings between Jackson Center Directors, local community leaders, and elementary school faculty and staff● Attended local municipality meetings to stay updated on local government projects

Chapel Hill, Nc

● Led 7-10 campus tours a week, given to over 600 prospective students and their families, about a variety of topics ranging from academics, student life, and the history of UNC

Chapel Hill, Nc

● Tutored children with ages ranging from 8 to 16, 2 to 3 times a week in English and mathematics● Helped coordinate Rogers Road community events like the Back to School Bash which provides school supplies for children grades k-12.