Your learning partners for social-scientific data collection, management, and analysis. Our mission is to turn data into wise decisions, leading clients and partners to new achievements. Our vision is a vast and valuable network of learning partners pursuing wisdom-driven social research and development. Our values are to be welcoming, inclusive, equitable, diverse, antiracist, and affirming.

Design and manage social research projects and provide educational and technical services to on- and off-campus clients, including Calvin University faculty and nonprofit leaders from local to international. Design and manage databases and data collection projects; conduct advanced statistical analysis; create visualizations and narratives with data; pursue logistical and organizational innovation; and seek practical, positive results for the University, the church, and the community.

Design and manage social research projects, especially mixed-mode surveys; database management, advanced statistical analysis, geographic information systems and logistical innovation.

Co-leader of a four-institution team to evaluate the Believe 2 Become initiative's multi-pronged efforts to help increase educational achievement among low-income students in four Hope Zones in Grand Rapids. The project includes enhancement assistance for public schools; after school and summer learning programs at schools, nonprofits and churches; community engagement; and communications strategies. The Calvin Center for Social Research team is involved in all prongs to some degree but focused primarily on fielding a Community Survey and providing data systems and analysis for tracking community engagement and communications efforts.

Integrative and holistic consultancy, with broad skills in problem-solving, team-building, talent development, solution prototyping, decision support, technology selection, database design, advanced user training, research methods, statistical analysis, data visualization, writing, presentation, live and recorded narration, graphic design, social media, and media production improvements. Got a complex problem and aren't even sure how to begin talking about it? I can help you understand the problem in terms you grasp and translate your terms into workable solutions.

Conducted documentary research on deliberative democratic practice, participated in efforts to improve electronic record-keeping systems.

Built and managed nationwide database of Young Life ministries by area and school, created regional maps.