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Lowell, MA, US

• Design and conduct research to inform institutional practice and College Board policy, with a focus on improving college access for underserved populations. Work collaboratively with internal teams and external.
• Research lead for College Board’s Landscape program, an equity-oriented admissions intervention that helps 200+ colleges consider applicants in the context of where they live and learn. Construct indicators of.
• Lead data analyst for a multi-phase study of the Fall 2021 and 2022 admissions cycles at 60 colleges. Draft technical specifications for colleges' administrative data submissions; collect, clean, and compile analysis.

• Lead analyst for College Board’s Landscape program, an equity-oriented admissions intervention that helps colleges consider applicants in the context of where they live and learn.
• Work in R, Stata, and SQL to construct indicators of educational opportunity for each of the 74,000 census tracts and 30,000 high schools in the United States, for use in high-stakes college admissions. Evaluate.
• Service analysis requests from internal departments and external clients to support College Board services and strategic priorities. Conduct enrollment-funnel and disparate-impact analyses to inform institutional.
• Proposed, designed, and automated standardized processes for data intake, validation, filing, documentation, analysis, and report generation to efficiently scale the Landscape program from 50 to 190 user colleges.
• Design clean, intuitive data visualizations and presentational materials to communicate the validity and value of Landscape’s indicators to researchers and colleges.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provided research support within ACE’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy.
• Gathered, cleaned, analyzed, and presented postsecondary data to support CPRS projects and ACE’s Government Relations team.
• Summarized postsecondary policy research and produced literature reviews, policy briefs, blog posts, and presentational materials for ACE’s internal and external audiences.
• Synthesized ACE research findings and collaborated with Vice President of Research to draft the executive summary of a major ACE report highlighting racial inequities higher education.
• Collaborated with a team of education leaders to design a model “promise” program for adult learners.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Planned and led weekly discussion sessions of 1-2 hours, held weekly office hours to assist and advise students, and graded course assignments and exams in the following undergraduate courses: Sophomore Tutorial in Government (3 semesters), International Political Economy (2 semesters), and Introduction to Comparative Politics (1 semester).

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Conducted archival research under Professor Daniel Ziblatt for a project investigating the deep-historical roots of cross-regional disparities in unemployment and voter turnout in Germany.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Government

Master Of Arts - Ma, Government

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, History