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Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Supporting the International Development Envelope team, which is responsible for managing GAC's international assistance budget
• Tracking upcoming proposals, drafting funding requests to address urgent global humanitarian & development needs

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Co-led the Data & Reporting team during the April 2023 Sudan evacuation operation, providing key insights to senior management, relaying critical information to field teams to enable Canadians to depart Sudan
• Helped create the structure of a new permanent Emergency Response Team to manage GAC’s response to crises worldwide
• Developed policies to coordinate emergency data requests & information management, and helped launch a new crisis analytics framework

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Co-led the redesign of the Algorithmic Impact and Alignment Assessment, a tool focused on ensuring the responsible use of artificial intelligence at the CRA
• Designed numerous working group sessions, an extensive testing process, and presented across the Agency with the goal of developing a new AI stewardship and governance framework
• Co-creating an application to facilitate random virtual ‘coffee chats’ to foster a sense of belonging for new employees at the Agency

Princeton

• Developed curriculum and taught intensive three-week math course to incoming Master of Public Affairs students
• Led the redevelopment of the gateway Quantitative Analysis course: liaised with a variety of stakeholders to redesign all problem sets, exams, and memo assignments
• Led twice weekly precepts and Stata training sessions, meeting frequently with students to reinforce key course concepts of statistical inference, evaluation design, and prediction
• Tutored extensively in micro/macroeconomics and econometrics

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

• Interviewed over 50 entrepreneurs, accelerators, incubators and investors to map the small business support ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire
• Drafted and presented report detailing investment and partnership opportunities for EWB Canada in the country

Kampala, Uganda

• managed ten impact evaluations focusing on governance, health, business and social protection, directly supervising eight associates
• helped set strategic vision and policies of IPA Uganda as part of its senior management team
• supported knowledge management across the organization, while providing technical guidance in data collection, quality control, and analysis.
• designed new projects by working with academics and implementers on research design, logistics planning and budgeting

Kampala, Uganda

• coordinated two research projects: Meet the Candidates and the Budget Transparency Initiative
• helped manage all project operations, including the execution of a cross-country political debate series, and several rounds of data collection
• performed extensive data work using Stata and SurveyCTO, including survey preparation, data cleaning, quality checks, and analysis
• conducted interviews with civil society organizations, senior journalists and government officials while designing the projects

New Haven, Connecticut

• helped create IPA’s Data Repository – an initiative making IPA’s data public and accessible
• presented and developed extensive resources on data publication and research replication
• led numerous trainings and developed new content for IPA’s Stata courses
• researched code management systems and wrote user guide to GitHub

Kisumu, Kenya

• set up and piloted an electronic data collection system using Open Data Kit for GiveDirectly
• helped hire, train, and audit surveyors during data collection
• researched and presented recommendations as to how IPA could better support computer-based surveying

Nairobi, Kenya

• assisted project staff in evaluating impact of micro-insurance on informal-sector metalworkers
• wrote comprehensive logbook that detailed project history and current field procedures
• performed data cleaning using Stata and transferred survey questions from Blaise onto Excel

Master Of Public Affairs, International Development

Activities and Societies: Student Government Curriculum Representative, Resident Graduate Student for Whitman College.Selected coursework.

Bachelor Of Arts (Honours), Political Science And Economics

Activities and Societies: Engineers without Borders Canada, Student Network for Economic Development.Selected coursework: Advanced.