Robin Hart Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

In collaboration with Dr. Peter Bearman and the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), I am conducting a study to determine how college course content impacts retention of marginalized students in STEM and certain institutions. Specifically, I aim to uncover if diverse course content pertaining to gender and race will increase minority student retention. Results from this project have the potential to arm higher education institutions and educators with knowledge about how to maximize reading selections and courses offered to increase marginalized students' belonging, and as a result, increase their graduation rates.

• Develop a coding schema and code 50+ interviews from stakeholders in the Paycheck Protection Program to determine how Community Development Financial Institutions emerged as a prominent lender for marginalized communities. Mobilize the qualitative data collected to write a series of memos toward a publishable research article and conference talk.• Investigate 32,889 zip codes in the United States to determine what cities have successfully implemented business loan programs in minority majority neighborhoods.• Compiled five quantitative city reports to assess disparities in PPP loan allocation by bank type, time, loan and business size, and geography. Geocoded address-level data into city maps, and instructed other RAs how to utilize RStudio for chloropleth map construction.• Conducted multiple linear regression analysis to confirm interviewee’s hypothesis that minority business owners are less likely have their PPP loans forgiven.

• Attend class sessions of Sociology 311 (Research Methods) biweekly, offer feedback to the professor, and hold weekly office hours to work with students one-on-one.• Coordinate with Computer User Services to create an online portal for students to access STATA, and create an accessible information guide to navigate the online framework.• Apply tech-oriented solutions to the classroom, including monitoring a Slack channel and Google Drive account.

• Attend and co-teach Introduction to Statistics (Math 141) and Data Science (Math 241) lab sessions, provide instructor with feedback, and assist students with coding or conceptual questions about the course.• Create four coding guides to reinforce concepts from RStudio packages used in class (base, infer, ggplot).• Hold office hours for over three hours a week to answer students’ questions about coursework, navigating code in R, and facilitate a positive learning environment accessible to all students, no matter their statistics or coding background.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Facilitate community building circles to build sustained community interaction, allowing for later harm reduction.• Work with local non-profit organizations and schools in the greater Portland community working to implement restorative justice outside of the college, such as Liberation Literacy.

• Attend all Working Group meetings to serve as a student liaison and to represent student needs, with an emphasis on the resources trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming individuals need for success at Reed.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• I have raised $66,886.53 from 170 donors to support students, faculty, and financial aid through the Annual Fund.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Coded 1,559 goals from state and local climate action policy based on specified tools, implementation, planning, and mention of race or income.• Read 106 articles on climate change surveys in the United States to summarize findings for a literature review and compile survey questions.

Seattle,

• Presented information about prosecutorial decisions in accessible formats to the defense community, drawing attention to how BIPOC and indigent communities are disproportionately impacted by the court systems, particularly with drug possession charges.• Used statistics and data visualization tools to produce six reports on topics of interest to the legal community (simple drug possession, prosecutorial misconduct, Robbery 2, guilty pleas) to prove the statistical significance and relationships seen between race, gender, age, etc. and likelihood of conviction.• Collaborated with the Seattle Clemency Project, Washington Office of Public Defense, the Freedom Project, and the Northwest Justice Project to access and publish data from the courts.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Sociology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Columbia Student Disability Network Treasurer, Provost Fellows Writing Group FacilitatorMA conferred due.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology, 3.96/4.0 Cumulative Gpa, 4.0/4.0 Departmental Gpa

Activities and Societies: Minor in Music | Phi Beta Kappa | Commendation for Academic Excellence 2019–2023