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- Cultivate community partnerships with Great Lakes Indigenous communities- Design and prepare interactive public dashboard- Develop standardized templates, procedures, and project metadata for internal and external reporting and analysis- Collaborate with diverse partners to meet data needs- Ensure quality control in qualitative and quantitative data- Organize, clean, and maintain data inventories

Smart Docklands is a smart city testbed in the heart of Dublin’s Docklands. Established in 2018, the program is funded by Dublin City Council (DCC) and CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks headquartered at Trinity College Dublin.• Assisted with research about technology pilot programs• Engaged with local leaders working on sustainable innovation in Dublin• Presented recommendations and key frameworks for future technology pilots

Assisted with daily office tasks including covering the reception desk, event support, merchandise sales, and administrative organization

• Member of Dr. Paul Winter’s research team writing a report (pending publication) on the ways in which global agricultural projects address climate change and social equity• Trained a Large Language Model using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to identify and categorize outcomes and interventions within 1,000+ United Nations project documents• Cleaned, prepared, and visualized data for 927 project documents including budget expenditures & project outcomes; used Excel to produce line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, and histograms• Conducted a literature review of 25+ documents about the relationship between climate change and agriculture for report

• Performed qualitative interviews with 30+ individuals from 10+ countries• Curated a public digital archive documenting various experiences and perceptions ofglobal education systems• Created and managed a results database in Excel• Developed recommendations for educational policy and ethnographic methodologypractices

• Digitally identified and mapped 100+ religious congregations in Chicago using Google Maps and spatial databases• Performed in-person data verification in order to establish a database of active religious organizations

• Built Python script to web scrape 1000+ project documents from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank• Trained a Large Language Model to identify and categorize outcomes and interventions within ~500 project documents using AWS• Collaborated with a four-person interdisciplinary team to write a report on the potential for machine learning in environmental accountability models. We completed a capstone titled “An Analysis of Approaches by International Organizations to Address the Issues of Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in Low-Income Countries.”The Interdisciplinary Traineeship for Socially Responsible and Engaged Data Scientists (iTREDS) program trains undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College in data science through a lens of social responsibility and community engagement, including rigor and responsibility, ethics, society, and policy.

Division I NCAA foil fencer. 20 hours/week. Member of three-time National Champion and three-time ACC Champion team. Monogram recipient.

• Executed company-wide waste stream audit and developed recommendations of sustainable products and processes to improve landfill diversion rates; presented waste reduction strategy to corporate leadership team• Calculated annual scope-three carbon emission estimates for the internal sales team based on vehicle mileage, car types, fuel sources, and yearly travel distances in Excel

Summer intern for St. Margaret's House, a center which improves the lives of women and children by providing individual attention to their immediate needs, breaking the bonds of isolation and helping them acquire skills to better their lives. Roles included facilitating the summer children's program, assisting with daily meals and shower set-up, helping guest services, and organizing in-kind donations.

• Member of a research team working with the Rwandan government to understand the challenges and trajectories faced by persons convicted of genocide• Analyzed 100+ quantitative survey responses using Stata statistical software to understand sample demographics and variance among outcomes; thematically assessed 50+ interview transcripts using NVivo software

• Established a household energy efficiency data management system for the City of South Bend, Indiana using Excel• Performed in-person weatherization and energy efficiency upgrades for 100+ at-risk and low-income homes• Tracked energy data before and after home upgrades using metrics established by Indiana Michigan Power