• Responsible for developing and implementing a long-term research agenda on national homelessness and federal and state-level responses.• Manages a team of policy analysts to produce a variety of publications and online tools raising awareness and providing analysis and recommendations on current trends in major American cities.• Works closely with partners in local and state governments to produce research and maps on homeless students.• Publishes research and commentary regularly and presents findings to national conferences and advocacy organizations.

• Co-managed the publication of an atlas examining levels of student homelessness and related educational outcomes across New York City.• Initiated and supervised the cleaning of multiple individual-level datasets provided by the Department of Education.• Provided technical assistance and quantitative expertise to government officials interested in gaining insight from data.

• Produced and presented research briefs on gentrification, food stamp usage, homelessness, and other local poverty trends in New York City.• Wrote multiple reports that were cited in local news media, such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.• Performed statistical analyses in Stata and SPSS using administrative data sets.

• Prepared and disseminated talking point memos, written testimony, and fact sheets on behalf of nonprofit organizations lobbying the Massachusetts legislature.• Produced a report on the impact of immigrant voters on the 2010 Senate election. • Performed budgetary analyses on the impact of differing legislative proposals.

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the American Political Process.

• Created computer experiments, conducted literature reviews, and did preliminary analysis of data for study linking physical appearance to electoral results.• Performed research and data entry and analysis for various projects related to political communication and Latin American politics.