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• Designing a free, interactive map to show the past, present, and potential futures of Pittsburgh Public School assets.
• Geocoding historical addresses; cleaning community-provided data; joining datasets from various stakeholders.

Koror, Palau

• Designed an integrated website for the public to access geographic data and resources.
• Created a series of interactive dashboards, using data from the Palau Census of Population and Housing.
• Wrote four (4) standard operating procedures (SOPs) on editing and formatting data for use in ArcGIS.
• Led three (3) trainings for coworkers to ensure maintenance and longevity of open data website.

• Assisted Professor Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman with her course, Applied Data Analytics with Tableau.
• Held weekly office hours, graded assignments, and proctored exams for classes of 18-25 students.

Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania

• Created a five-year strategic budget (Capital Improvement Plan), outlining borough project requests, grant opportunities, and goals in accordance with the borough’s Comprehensive Plan.
• Cleaned, tabulated, and reported data for 26 projects, totaling over $5 million in requested funding.

• Analyzed provider and patient participation in Medicare’s Global & Professional Direct Contracting model, subsetting patients by eligibility from the larger Medicare population (65 million persons).
• Led a department presentation (30-40 persons) on Medicare telehealth coverage during the pandemic.

• Created a series of interactive data visuals for Single-Payer Healthcare Interactive Financing Tool (SHIFT), led by Professors Alison Galvani and Meagan Fitzpatrick.
• Cleaned and analyzed cross-sectional data on marketplace and Medicaid enrollment over a five-year period.
• Conducted a literature review on health determinants and insurance coverage during economic recessions.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Continued undergraduate research, analyzing the effects of social expenditure on expected health and labor productivity in the US.
• Performed regression analysis to assess health trends in 38 OECD member countries.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Analyzed long-term care costs and coverage in the US, assisting Professor Gerald Friedman.
• Cleaned and tabulated data on health insurance financing from 38 OECD countries, using Stata.

Master Of Science, Public Policy And Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics, Minor In Art-History

Activities and Societies: UMass Amherst Food Recovery Network, WMUA 91.1 FM, The Clay Siblings’ Project