Led analysis of financial health and women's economic empowerment across seven countries, producing 37 annotated, reproducible notebooks.Co-created deon, an open source tool on data ethics for data scientists. Designed and led multiple in-person workshops and virtual webinars on actionable data ethics. Conducted user interviews and synthesized findings to inform the design of Zamba Cloud, a computer vision application for wildlife conservation.Engineered data integration pipelines, drove analysis and machine learning work streams, and produced reporting visualizations on financial inclusion in Côte d’Ivoire and Myanmar.

Built key data visualizations for the Agricultural Development team's 2018 strategy review materials presented to Bill and Melinda Gates. Led conversations around uses cases of data science in agricultural development and conducted technical assessments of three ag-tech start-ups in India.Created online interactive dashboards to inform high-level prioritization decisions as well as to encourage team-wide use and exploration of curated agricultural data.

Developed five data science projects as part of competitive 12-week immersive data science program covering topics such as statistics, machine learning, linear algebra, and visualization.Built a neural net to identify destroyed buildings in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan using satellite imagery, and created density maps of damage to illustrate priority areas for relief efforts. This work was featured in Data Science Weekly and on SwitchUp, and presented at the 2017 Data Science for Social Good Conference at the University of Chicago.Designed an NLP model to distill topics from press briefings from Obama’s presidency. Built a timeline of salient topics using plotly.Built an animated d3 visualization to illustrate droughts and floods in India at a district level. Designed a time series model to predict future rainfall.Scraped a beer review website and utilized supervised learning models to predict beer ratings with a low complexity, high R-squared random forest regressor.Analyzed New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority data to design a proposal to increase users and recommend new markets for a mobile payment and coffee discovery company.

Analyzed national household survey data on agricultural debt and conducted field interviews with farmers during two months in India.Cleaned panel survey data and ran regressions for a publication on water management in Kenya.Authored 21 website articles that distilled econometric research into key policy takeaways.

Co-authored a Brookings policy brief on inter-American relations that informed U.S. policy at the Summit of the Americas. Aggregated and analyzed data to produce publication-quality visualizations to illustrate economic and political trends over the past fifty years.Provided detailed, substantive edits on reports, books, policy briefs, and blog posts.Hired and supervised three interns. Oversaw research for an award-winning book on Brazilian foreign policy.

Conceptualized and drafted UNV-wide advocacy strategy to promote civic engagement in the post-2015 development agenda. Regularly attended meetings at UN HQ on the formation of the sustainable development goals.

Researched and wrote a paper on economic, urban, and structural determinants of employment creation in Argentina.Compiled quarterly employment, population, and macroeconomic data for Argentina’s 28 largest cities over a 15-year period.Designed two econometric models to test theories of employment generation and make policy recommendations.

Drafted a literature review on the macroeconomic history of Argentina, Colombia, and Chile from 1990-2010. Analyzed Argentine household survey data in STATA in collaboration with a visiting labor economist.

Instructed 8 students twice weekly in beginning level Spanish classes. Crafted engaging lesson plans to improve students' oral communication skills.

Expedited activities of a five-member board in designing a city-wide buying procedure to select vendors that did not manufacture products in sweatshops. Co-edited affidavit to prevent loopholes and facilitated drafting and editing process to meet deadlines. Initiated and coordinated board's page on University City website.