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Greater Boston Area

• Managed termly assessment data collection for 600+ schools across five countries
• Implemented a residual gains model to estimate teacher value added for more than 3,000 teachers in Kenya (reduced manual work by 40%)
• Created a call campaign system to monitor calls and record data for 200,000 parents
• Trained assessors on implementing one-on-one assessments (reduced data entry time by 20%through system improvement)
• Evaluated small-scale RCTs to investigate the impact of innovations on student performance
• Trained Boston and global staff in R programming

Greater Boston Area

• At Bridge International Academies, I work as a Global M&E Analyst, tasked with measuring learning gains of more than 100,000 students across five countries.
• Provide analytical support to improve learning gains and increase operational efficiency
• Oversee data collection and cleaning processes
• Train and manage field teams to determine students' numeracy and literacy levels
• Perform big data analyses to predict student outcomes on high-stake exams
• Evaluate teacher effectiveness

• As a teaching assistant at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, I implement lessons to first-year graduate students on the fundamentals of microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and computer programming
• Design interactive lesson plans to familiarize students with Stata and data analysis
• Hold office hours to conduct one-on-one teaching sessions

Career track: International Economics & Development; Regional specialization: KoreaCoursework: Advanced Econometrics, Trade, Economic Development, Food Security, Global Information Systems, Managerial Economics, International Economics, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Regression Analysis, Globalization, Policy Making Processes, Advanced KoreanHonors.

• Director/Consultant at Strategic Community Consulting, a student-led firm providing quantitative and qualitative analysis for public and private organizations.
• Conducted impact evaluation of Mid-City CAN's Youth Opportunity Pass (YOP) Program, which provides bus passes to 1000 at-risk youth at high schools in the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). Implemented baseline.
• Implemented an impact evaluation of Say & Play, a child development program led by Project Concern International in Zambia
• Produced an annual environmental report card to monitor the voting behavior of San Diego City Council members together with the League of San Diego Conservation Voters

• Saemaul Undong is South Korea's flagship development program and has been attributed as a key factor for Korea's rapid growth in rural sectors.
• Conducted research on Saemaul Undong and its success factors
• Designed the M&E framework needed to measure the effect of Saemaul Undong education programs on rural development in Myanmar
• Lectured on Saemaul Undong's implementation to foreign audiences aiming to implement a similar program in their home countries

Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea

• The Boren Fellowship provides funding for students interested in US national security to study critical languages.
• Analyzed the evolution of Korean ODA and Saemaul Undong’s growing importance under South Korea's current regime
• Presented original research in Korean on the determinants of Korea’s ODA
• Obtained academic proficiency in the Korean language

Jongro-gu, Seoul, Korea

• A non-profit organization based in Seoul, South Korea, which engages in development assistance projects, supports civil society empowerment, and provides emergency relief assistance to victims of natural disasters.
• Assisted in the impact analysis of a livestock bank in Nyarubaka, Rwanda to determine how it increased household incomes and assets
• Translated and edited six publications, including the annual sustainability report
• Implemented community engagement projects to encourage volunteering and global involvement of the general public

Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

• Used international experience to engage students with lesson plans based on geography, politics, economics, language, and culture
• Created the curricula for winter and summer intensive English camps

Sofia, Bulgaria

• Independently created a research project to advance knowledge about the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a Bulgarian political party that represents ethnic minorities in Bulgaria
• Interviewed members of the MRF and parliament, attended plenary sessions of the Bulgarian parliament; conducted a survey of ethnic Turks in Bulgarian examining their satisfaction with the MRF

Master'S Degree, International Affairs And Pacific Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), International Studies