Emma Schmidt Email & Phone Number

• Co-founded nonprofit dedicated to providing data science and GIS services to mission-driven organizations with limited technical capacity.
• Formulated business model and organizational structure while adapting to input from team members and mentors.
• Organized, attended, and followed up after meetings with partner organizations, mentors, and team members.
• Recruited, interviewed, hired, and onboarded new team members.

• Conducted quantitative data analysis related to social and spatial inequalities as part of community-based research on eviction crisis.
• Collected, analyzed, summarized, and presented data on Virginia’s eviction crisis using Stata and ArcGIS.

• Mobile Microinsurance Uptake in Kenya (January 2020 - May 2020)
• Assisted with designing a randomized control trial to determine whether leveraging group marketing strategies would increase uptake of mobile microinsurance among farmers in Kenya.
• Applied for grants to help support the research.
• Reviewed existing literature on group marketing.Spatial Inequality Across Africa (May 2020 - August 2020)
• Received fellowship grant to assist Dr. Phil Roessler with his research, working to understand the relationship between cash crops, colonialism, and lasting spatial inequality across sub-Saharan Africa.
• Utilized primary sources to document cash crop production, land rights, and land usage in various ethnic enclaves.

• Facilitated communication between the executive board and the rest of the club team members.
• Assisted President by upholding and updating club policies, attending meetings with William & Mary's Campus Recreation department, and coordinating club activities.
• Oversaw administrative work necessary to qualify for, and compete in, USA Rugby’s national tournament.
• Designed, ordered, and distributed club merchandise to team members, alumni, and their families.

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

• Ensured customer satisfaction by providing personalized service while assisting other restaurant staff with delivering menu items and clearing tables.
• Answered questions about the preparation of menu items and conveyed special requests to the kitchen.
• Assisted with the training of new wait staff.
• Filled hostess role as necessary, greeted customers, arranged seating, and assisted with reservations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology, Data Science (Minor)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Society, National Merit Scholar, Resident Assistant, Varsity Field Hockey Captain, Head of STEM Club.

Education record