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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

• Led and coordinated data collection efforts for a novel project analyzing social media public diplomacy efforts of the U.S., Russia, and China, identifying, categorizing, and tagging over 900 relevant Twitter handles• Led communications with external stakeholders for a global survey of leaders in 141 low- and middle-income countries• Supported the successful release of a 3-year federally funded project on Russian influence in 17 countries, including preparingstakeholder-specific reports for publication by harmonizing and creating data visualizations, incorporating funder feedback, and copyediting• Jointly managed a team of 17 research assistants; hired and trained 6 new research assistants on data collection for a survey samplingframe of over 100,000 global leaders in government ministries, multilateral aid organizations, and non-governmental and private sectororganizations• Managed multiple, diverse, and complex assignments with minimal supervision in a team environment, such as preparing literaturereviews for principal researchers, scoping interviews with key stakeholders, and reviewing messaging for survey invitations• Crafted narratives for blog posts covering international event developments

Performed more advanced research tasks like cleaning data for quality control, making and reviewing edits to our methodology codebook, suggesting training opportunities, and sharing data insights with the team supervisor

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Researched civic space vulnerability in Europe and Eurasia for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program Countering Malign Kremlin Influence (CMKI) Development Framework

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Tracked Chinese lending, investment, and aid to East Asian and Pacific Island nations as a research assistant on the Transparent Development Footprints (TDF) China team

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Researched Chinese foreign lending, investment, and aid using the Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF) methodology

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

The Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) is an undergraduate think tank that researches emerging challenges to international security and develops policy recommendations.PIPS research has been presented at its annual DC symposium, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Joint Forces Staff College, and has been featured in the US Army Mad Scientist Convergence podcast.