Mark Carlson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Researching, writing and designing a new transgender section of the organization website, providing a trans-centered experience and incorporating research and resources with an intersectional lens.
• Designed the Safe Schools website section as part of a legislative campaign on anti-bullying, connecting students, parents and educators to appropriate information and resources.
• Evaluated how racial and transgender equity is experienced by employees, interns, volunteers, and other equity organizations, and advised internally through communications, organizing efforts, and the strategic.
• Serve on the Communications Committee, advising on messaging and public relations regarding campaigns, news, strategic planning, and political outcomes.

• Currently designing a program evaluation for Circle of Discipline, a nonprofit serving at-risk youth of color, by using tools of stakeholder analysis, logic modeling, performance measure identification, and data.
• Researched and analyzed how the Morehouse College dress code contributes to health and opportunity disparities of gender nonconforming and transgender people of color.
• Researched racial equity implications of high-speed broadband expansion in the City of St. Paul and the State of Minnesota.
• Currently studying hegemonic masculinity, Black masculinity, transgender health disparities, and anti-bullying legislation.
• Relevant coursework: policy analysis, program evaluation, diversity and public policy, identity and policy, politics of public affairs, regression analysis.