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Senior Associate in the Education, Equity, & Community Change Division, providing mixed-methods expertise for a variety of education evaluations including First 5’s Kit for New Parents evaluation, projects with the Hiesing-Simons foundation’s early learning and care portfolio, and a power mapping project with the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Designed and oversaw five evaluation contracts with government agencies, nonprofits, school districts, and universities• Supervised and trained five staff in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and report writing • Oversaw project management meetings for senior level staff to monitor project deadlines and staff workloads, resulting in a more equitable distribution of project hours among support staff • Developed evaluation plans, project budgets, evaluation reports (including report design), graphic materials, and other deliverables • Served as the field instructor for a Master of Social Work Intern, which includes developing onboarding materials, regular supervision and training, and required supervision trainings

Sacramento, California Area

• Designed and carried out six evaluation projects including contracts with school districts, community-based organizations, and government agencies• Wrote final evaluation reports independently, including a five-year final evaluation report that was ranked as “Exemplary” by the California Department of Public Health• Created qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools, such as interview and focus group protocols, public opinion polls, observation forms, and participant databases• Provided and oversaw reporting technical assistance to community-based organizations• Conducted focus groups and interviews (in English and Spanish)• Performed qualitative and quantitative analyses, including thematic coding, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and multivariate regressions• Presented findings in reports and presentations for nonprofits, government agencies, and foundations

Chicago, Il

I work collaboratively with a research team on one Medicaid research study. Thus far, I have been involved in data collection and analysis, including conducting and transcribing interviews with State Medicaid staff, and using the statistical program SAS to extra/clean data and provide descriptive statistics. Throughout my time at OEI, I have had a number of opportunities to assess the particular issues being evaluated as well as the role of HHS/OIG/OEI in the broader context in which it is situated.

Chicago, Il (Hyde Park)

As a social work intern at HPNC, I: • Conducted program evaluations of three classes of the After School Learning Lab• Analyzed and entered data of demographic and health information of youth and their parents • Tutored students, ages 5-14 • Upkept student files and attendance and other administrative tasks.

Ann Arbor

While at Foundations Preschool, in addition to working on several development projects, my primary responsibility is creating the foundational work for the launch of the Foundations Preschool endowment in 2014, which included: •Creating a 10 year strategic plan to realize a $3M endowment based on established nonprofit research and by collecting/analyzing data from Ann Arbor area nonprofits. •Training key staff and board members in endowment tasks, especially conducting personal visits with prospective major donors. •Establishing benchmarks within the 10 year strategic plan, both by building on long-term endowment building research and by interviewing other Ann Arbor nonprofits that have established endowments. •Identifying, researching, and conducting personal visits with prospective major donors.•Creating endowment specific marketing materials through InDesign. •Recruiting new Board members.•Managing and recruiting the Endowment Committee.In addition to my specified role as an endowment officer, I also was responsible for other projects, including: • Name Change: Myself and my supervisor were the two primarily responsible for the planning and execution of changing the name from "Perry Nursery School of Ann Arbor" to "Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County," which more accurately reflected our mission and area served. This included conducting our own market research as well as reviewing nonprofit management and research materials to research the financial, marketing, and legal processes and best practice regarding name changes. • New Generation Donors Project: increasing and diversifying individual donations by appealing to younger (mid 20s to 40s) donors. By incorporating increasingly established research on "new generation" donors, I brought a new marketing and communications strategy to specifically target young donors, which ultimately increased young donors donations of time (particularly on the Board of Directors) and money.

Ann Arbor And Detroit, Mi

• Headed a project to bring the Ann Arbor based YPP to Detroit by coordinating with Ann Arbor and Detroit area universities and interested volunteers • Created a YPP internship course with UM’s Detroit based study program, “Semester in Detroit.” I also incorporated the YPP into a Detroit-based university’s community service learning course in order to recruit interested volunteers• Planned YPP community wide events and fundraisers, including the YPP “restaurant week” fundraiser in which I coordinated with area restaurants and YPP volunteers and family/friend members• Taught math module and provided ACT math prep to 8th-12th grade high school students

Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Archived and qualitatively coded data for “Ponytails Project” about gender and sport• Designed/implemented/analyzed survey data using SPSS to analyze effectiveness of Race and Ethnicity requirement in raising consciousness of structural racism• Conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses of 967 articles and transcripts, 90,000 YouTube videos, and 850,000 tweets to analyze the construction of Occupy Wall Street• Workshopped and edited other Honors Students theses

Brooklyn, New York

As the AENY Mural Mile Program Manager, I: • Oversaw the resource development, event planning, community outreach, and completion of a 100 ft wide x 20ft high mural dedicated to Trayvon Martin and other men of color, painted by artist and youth participants of the Mural Mile arts education program. • Coordinated and produced press releases, mass email alerts, and social media outreach in order to promote mural mile unveiling event, receiving promotion from NY1 (news channel) • Mediated artistic desires and conflicts between executive director, adult professional muralists, and teen muralists using conflict resolution techniques • Fundraised ~$10,000 in in-kind donations from both Benjamin Moore for mural supplies and the time of the adult muralists • Recruited community members and organizations as volunteers, event participants, and Mural Mile program attendants. You can see the coverage by New York 1 here: http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167116/east-new-york-residents-paint-mural-to-protest-gun-violence

Ann Arbor, Mi

I facilitated a service-learning class which discussed the contemporary American education system from a sociological perspective. My responsibilities included preparing lesson plans and leading weekly dialogue based class room discussion, mediating between students, the umbrella organization (the Ginsberg Center), and the project community service location, reading and evaluating weekly journals, and attending 2 intensive retreats to improve facilitation skills.

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I worked for a Cambodian NGO, Strey Khmer, that was founded by M.P. and human rights activist Mu Sochua. I also worked with the political opposition party that Mu Sochua is a part of, the Sam Rainsy Party. Primarily I worked within the Youth Wing of the SRP, but while I worked with Mu Sochua, I also drafted and edited position papers for the SRP, lead IT and English workshos for Cambodians in Strey Khmer, wrote press release statements for the SRP, assistend in the grant writing process for Strey Khmer, and organized and drafted the Constitution and Mission Statement for the Youth Wing of the SRP.

Master'S Degree, Msw: Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

The social administration concentration provides students with advanced instruction in the economics, politics, and organization of social.

Honors Sociology, Social Work Minor: Community Action And Social Change, 3.92/4.00

Activities and Societies: The Young People's Project/The Algebra Project, PALMA (Proyecto Avance Latino Mentoring Association), Thrill.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology

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