Melissa Velez Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

♦ Lead the analyses for three, multi-year quasi-experimental studies worth between $430,000 and $2 million, whose results have directly informed state and non-profit policy.♦ Oversee processing of messy, complex data sets with teams of up to seven individuals to ensure high quality data cleansing, data integrity, analysis, synthesis, and reporting.♦ Create measures and visualizations of implementation fidelity used in three multi-year projects to better understand interventions’ adherence to program models and link to impacts.♦ Successfully managed three proposals ranging in size from $500,000 to $1.5 million.♦ Selected to attend the Workshop on Quasi-Experimental Design and Analysis in Education, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences and Northwestern University.♦ Yearly recipient of spot bonuses, awarded for exceptional work.

Greater Boston Area

Greater New York City Area

♦ Processed, cleaned, merged, and analyzed messy data for almost 10 projects using relational and quasi-experimental designs, and logistic regression, multi-level, sibling fixed effects, and variance decomposition models. ♦ Co-edited and co-authored over five peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and reports on school discipline, children’s time use, and predictors of achievement and behavioral outcomes. ♦ Recipient of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, awarded to doctoral students (for two years, at $30,000 per year) to develop technical skills needed to pursue rigorous, cutting-edge research.♦ Awarded funding for SQL course through the Herbert Menzel Fellowship for Quantitative Methodological Training.

Greater New York City Area

♦ Collaborated with an interdisciplinary research team to clean, manipulate, and analyze student data and assess the impact of whole-school educational interventions in the nation’s largest school districts. ♦ Contributed to development and implementation of an innovative data management system designed to efficiently process data from multiple sources.♦ Assisted in data collection and quality control tasks, including translation of survey instrument from English to Spanish, survey quality control, and survey administration.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sociology

A.B., Psychology

Graduate Certificate, Data Science