Maiyia Y. Kasouaher Email & Phone Number

• Participate in executive team meetings and decision-making
• Project Coordinator: arrange meetings, type minutes, submit invoice, manage and balance budget, communicate and assign tasks
• Collaborate with other researchers and partners on projects
• Recruit participants, conduct and lead individual and focus group interviews
• Community organizing and outreach
• Code and analyze data

Minneapolis

• Provide oversight, administration, and evaluation of the PHDR portfolio of community-engaged programs (i.e. Health Disparities Pilot Grants, Community-Centered Dissemination Toolkit, PHDR Community Academic Board.
• Lead health equity work in PHDR to ensure practices and program are community engaged with a racial and cultural equity lens.
• Develop and sustain relationships with internal UMN units (i.e. Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health Management Council; Medical School Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; School of Public.
• Facilitate the dissemination of research outcomes and the unit’s community engagement efforts
• Train researchers and students in community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods
• Mediate and resolve research partnership conflicts

• 2017 – Present, SoLaHmo ResearcherCommunity health researcher for SoLaHmo at Community University Health Care Center. Lead and partner in both qualitative and quantitative research projects. Coordinate projects.
• Use SPSS to analyze quantitative data on multilingual education in rural Cambodia 2007 Capstone, University of San Diego Conduct focus groups and interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and NGO workers.

• Community outreach and engagement for the Quality Measurements Enhancement Project (QMEP)
• Connect with diverse community leaders and organizations to discuss quality health care metrics
• Collaborate with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to recruit participants for listening session
• Serve as an alternate on the MDH Steering Committee and panelist of MDH’s public webinar
• Manage and coordinate community meetings and with the Commissioner of Health
• Present at conferences and council meetings

• Coordinate and maintain relationships with contacts at 5 St. Paul Public Schools
• Recruit 6th and 9th graders at St. Paul Public Schools
• Obtain consent forms from parents and students, in person and by phone
• Administer surveys and distribute gift cards to students at schools

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Refugee resettlement

North Minneapolis / Arlington Hills

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organizational Leadership, Policy, And Development / Human Rights

Dissertation Negotiating Educational Identities: Life Histories of Karen Women in Minnesota

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Peace And Justice

Capstone Speaking the Language of Peace: Education in Lugufu Refugee Camp

Bachelor Of Individualized Studies (B.I.S.), Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, Global Studies, Linguistics

Study Abroad, Korean Language, History, Culture, And Politics