Interviewed child and parent participants and coded transcripts of videotaped conversations between participants for the Raising Grateful Children study headed by Dr. Andrea Hussong and Dr. Jennifer Coffman.

Assisted with research tasks in Dr. Kurt Gray's Mind Perception and Morality lab, Dr. Beth Kurtz-Costes's Motivation and Identity lab, and Dr. Keith Payne's Inequality and Discrimination lab. Tasks included: conducting literature searches; designing experiments; creating and testing survey items using Qualtrics and Inquisit; completing IRB applications; collecting data from lab participants; cleaning and analyzing data in Excel, SPSS, and R; and reviewing manuscripts.

Assisted with quality checking for congressionally-mandated reports for the U.S. Department of Education. Reports included the Digest of Education Statistics, the Condition of Education, Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups 2017, and Student Access to Digital Learning Resources. Tasks included: reviewing final versions of reports for publication, updating and reviewing tables and figures for annually-published reports, reviewing website development progress… Show more Assisted with quality checking for congressionally-mandated reports for the U.S. Department of Education. Reports included the Digest of Education Statistics, the Condition of Education, Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups 2017, and Student Access to Digital Learning Resources. Tasks included: reviewing final versions of reports for publication, updating and reviewing tables and figures for annually-published reports, reviewing website development progress, creating templates for text in future publications, assisting with social media management for the National Center for Education Statistics, and conducting literature reviews for future reports. Show less

Assisted with curriculum design for a Positive Youth Development (PYD) program as part of the MAPSCorps Nash and Edgecombe project for African-American adolescents in rural North Carolina. Curriculum was intended to improve nutrition and physical activity among participating high-school students while also empowering these students to become productive and engaged members of their community.Tasks included researching literature on PYD theory and evidence-based PYD programs, summarizing… Show more Assisted with curriculum design for a Positive Youth Development (PYD) program as part of the MAPSCorps Nash and Edgecombe project for African-American adolescents in rural North Carolina. Curriculum was intended to improve nutrition and physical activity among participating high-school students while also empowering these students to become productive and engaged members of their community.Tasks included researching literature on PYD theory and evidence-based PYD programs, summarizing advantages and disadvantages of different programs in format accessible for both researchers and community partners, and recommending programs to implement based on their likelihood of meeting the MAPSCorps project goal. Show less

Conducted telephone surveys across the United States as part of research being conducted by the UNC Lineberger Center's Center for Regulatory Research on Tobacco Communication (CRRTC).