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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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

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

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.