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New York, New York, United States

Copy edited stories in a variety of subjects weekly using AP style for Baruch College's independent, student-run newspaper.

New York, New York, United States

• Assisted PI with spatial data cleaning and analysis in Excel, Acrobat, RStudio, Stata and other statistical software packages using IPUMS global population projection data from UNICEF on 88 countries over 20 years• Synthesized data on 30+ CIDR demographers publications for annual report with Zotero and online research

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Trained new copy editors and fact checkers in AP Style, worked with section editors as well as Editor in Chief to problem solve editing issues as well as general copy editing and approving stories for publication.

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Supported the Editor In Chief in making publishing decisions for Smith college's independent student newspaper.

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Edit writing from all sections of the student newspaper according to the AP Style Guide and provide feedback for article writers and editors.

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Hired to be part of Cohort 7 of the Data Science Corps - Wrangle, Analyze, Visualize (DSC-WAV) at Smith College and working with Community Action Pioneer Valley (CAPV) survey data. DSC-WAV is funded by the National Science Foundation and helps undergraduate students have unstructured, authentic data science experiences by working with local civic organizations.• Translated problems identified in non-profit’s quantitative and qualitative Qualtrics survey of community library patrons regarding community needs with regards to a planned local service hub into a solutions report and analysis • Cleaned survey data using RStudio and created a dozen categories for qualitative data using NVivo software

Reconciled over 400 reported files and edited SQL and PL/SQL code for a relational database. Wrote a blog post on MassGIS/ATLAS integration that was published on Mass.gov website. Trained in Microsoft Power BI and PL/SQL.

Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Supported online access to the Smith College Libraries' special archives collection for distance research and virtual teaching. Increased the visibility and equitable use of collection material. Participated in the digitization workflow by conducting page counts, digitizing the materials using a scanner or hovercam, performing post-processing tasks on scanned images such as creating reference PDFs, writing brief descriptive information (metadata) in Airtable, and other tasks to prepare digital files for delivery to researchers. Learned how to handle archival objects.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

The Civic Digital Fellowship is the first-of-its-kind data science and technology internship program that allows innovative students to solve pressing problems in federal agencies. I was selected as part of the Summer 2021 cohort, with a 6% acceptance rate.While at NIAMS, I delivered three data management products over a ten-week fellowship:- Designed a four-phase campaign to organize clean-up of data backlog on the Institute’s public share directories.- Wrote a handbook of data management exercises/workshops, data flow maps, and resources/best practices.- Designed a data portal for the NIAMS CORES facilities including laying out the logic of folder permissions.I also wrote and presented slides for five separate talks to executives, technologists, and other fellows. I completed a four-day bootcamp on the Therapeutic Development Process taught by NIH. I also completed many NIH Training classes in R programming, statistical inference, and reproducibility in medicine.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Mentored 13 students in a required Statistics class at Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library on the RStudio Cloud workspace, running RStudio on Chromebook, and R programming with imported data.• Data importing, plotting, and equations were all covered using the OpenIntro to Statistics book.• Organized study sessions with multiple students as well as one-on-one tutoring.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed content strategy with Communications team.• Researched, conducted interviews, wrote, and edited copy for web and print products including annual reports, three newsletters, blog posts, and social media channels.• Managed content and contact lists in Salesforce, Drupal, and Mailchimp.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed and ran Agile sprints in Jira and Asana for cross-functional teams, including MailChimp set-up and integration, end-to-end testing, and prototyping.• Researched and validated both open source and in-house large data sets for use in Neighborhood Dashboard project; ran user interviews and a Data Workshop with stakeholders to establish priorities for project and wrote product brief and release schedule.• Wrote an article published on Medium after interviewing ten fellows and apprentices who worked at the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity about their experience in civic service.• Led a "lunch and learn" team meeting on Google Analytics and Regular Expressions (RegEx).

Greater New York City Area

• Contributed to product strategy and success metrics, including Key Performance Indicator (KPI) models and monthly analytics with Google Analytics and WebTrends.• Assisted in sprint management—working across developer and design teams to assure sprints are completed on time and to specification, including QA testing with content management system.• Assisted with vendor and stakeholder management.

Long Island City, New York

Selected for Pursuit Core Fellowship, an intensive 10-month, Google-funded software engineering program with a 9% acceptance rate (out of 1500+ applicants). Fellows are prepared with in-demand technical and professional skills and have been hired as developers at leading companies such as Pinterest, JP Morgan, and Spotify.Gained hands-on experience with Swift, Git, Data Structures, Algorithms, APIs, and tech principles and culture via both team/individual projects, code reviews, and pair programming.

Greater New York City Area

• Wrote and illustrated a children’s book• Managed professional website

Staten Island, Ny

• Taped dictation of psychiatric, psycholinguistic, and neurological examination reports for five doctors and three researchers.• Transcribed recordings.• Routed transcribed notes to appropriate staff.

Greater New York City Area

• Composed book titles during the pre-press stages for a book packager.• Coded text files and designed book pages according to in-house style sheets for client approval.

Binghamton

Created and prepared art files for preflight at book publishing service bureau. Converted and retouched graphics files. Scanned and color corrected original art and photos for FPO and final art. Created charts and other information design in Illustrator according to client specifications. Learned standard proofreading marks.

Binghamton, Ny

Burnt negatives onto and bent aluminum press plates in pre-production department at local Binghamton Gannett paper after transferring from Incoming Calls Classifieds department.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Journalism

Bachelor'S Degree (Pursued), Statistical & Data Sciences

Activities and Societies: Data Science Corps. Ada Comstock Scholar. Logic Club. Statistical and Data Sciences Club. Head copy editor &.

Associate'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Activities and Societies: Technology Student Mentor (R programming and RStudio) for Statistics class.Bard at Brooklyn Public Library.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa (Pursued), Illustration