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United States

Quantitative Analysis and Evaluation: Lead data analyst role for various education programs, emphasizing racial equity, postsecondary completion, and program quality assessment.Programming and Statistical Analysis: Proficient in R, Stata, Python, SQL for data cleaning, analysis, imputation, propensity-score matching, and developing code specifications.Reporting Automation: Experience delivering automated reports, summary reports, and contributing to technical briefs, research reports, and publications based on analysis outcomes.Longitudinal Data Management: Expertise in processing, cleaning, and linking longitudinal educational data, including workforce, teacher licensure, and state longitudinal data systems.Dashboard Development: Skilled in building interactive PowerBI dashboards to explore workforce disparities by race and ethnicity, as well as implementing state-specific research and policy questions.Technical Assistance and Instruction: Provided technical assistance to state teams and instruction on implementing educational frameworks, including the Postsecondary Value Framework.

Conducted research, reporting, and technical assistance projects on federal and other contracts. Managed the on-time and high-quality delivery of 24 reports to the Department of Education on the Promise Neighborhoods programs, coordinating authors, publications, quality assurance, and data staff across internal and external organizations. Cleaned and analyzed longitudinal teacher workforce data using R to address equity-focused research questions, and support the development of data dashboards.Developed R and Stata code to be used as analytic training materials for teams to use in the linking, cleaning, analysis, and presentation of postsecondary outcome data aligned with the Postsecondary Value Framework.Created and fielded a survey, using R to clean and develop a sample frame, and using Qualtrics to create and field the survey

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Led research review, data collection, and memo writing for a variety of education topics relevant to Tennessee educators and lawmakers, including career and technical education and teacher shortages. Used Excel and R to clean, analyze, and visualize state- and district-level data for public-facing advocacy publications. Worked with state and district leaders to analyze federal spending plans and provide actionable, research-driven suggestions.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Used Stata, R, and SPSS to analyze weighted nationally representative data to contribute to the creation of technical memoranda and research studies commissioned by the Department of Education.Developed and assisted in presentations at AEFP, AERA, and CIES conferences.Drafted blogs, data points, and portions of technical reports to be published by NCES, using weighted data from NAEP, SSOCS, and PIAAC.Developed data tables from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey to be published in NCES web-based reports.Responded to public inquiries regarding NCES products on the NCES help-desk.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Worked with State Board research staff in developing research memos regarding policy issues aligned with the State Board Master Plan. Specific research areas include factors affecting student success in grade 4-8, school counseling policy implementation, and state ethics training.Synthesized research into deliverables. Assisted General Counsel in development of State Board rule findings archive.

Moscow, Idaho

Master Of Public Policy - M, Education Policy

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics