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• Transcribe and translate data: Hmong/English• Write reports, present at conferences, and table at community events

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, Community Dialogue Series)• 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 Health's Health Equity Workgroup) and external stakeholders, community organizations, and institutions• 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• Supervise and mentor students on COVID-19 and dissemination projects

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, facilitate focus groups and interviews, transcribe, code and analyze data. Projects I contributed to: HPV, Gout, Quality Measures Enhancement Project (QMEP), Project TRUST, and Enhancing Culturally Appropriate Research (ECAR). 2012 – 2015, Dissertation, University of Minnesota Conduct detailed life history interviews with 9 Karen women focusing on their educational and lived experiences in Burma, Thailand, and the United States 2010, Internship, International Organization for Migration Utilize ethnographic methods to understand the refugee resettlement experiences from the perspectives of refugees and humanitarian aid workers in Western Thailand 2009 – 2010, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota Student analyst in Research Partnership to Improve Educational Outcome of Girls and Marginalized Children in 8 countries, sponsored by CARE, led by Dr. Joan DeJaeghere and Dr. Chris Johnstone • 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 about peace education in Lugufu Refugee Camp in Kigoma, Tanzania

• 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