• Manage cross-functional ream to lead research portfolio focused on designing and testing solutions to improve student support and coaching within higher education student learning journey • Lead and manage 5+ projects within the WGU Labs ‘Solutions Lab’, which focuses on conducting mixed-methods, rapid-cycle pilot tests to investigate the impact of solutions targeting student success within Western Governors University.• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with Western Governors University stakeholders to identify potential areas for intervention among the student experience.• Manage team of Research Scientists and Research Analyst; manage cross-functional teams with Learning Experience Designers, Consultants, Product Development Managers, and Marketing and Communication team.

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams on institution-wide research projects (e.g., implementing multiple pathways into Western Governors University, examining equity practices among the first-year student (first-generation students, students from racial/ethnic minority groups) experience at an online higher education institution).• Collaborate on grant initiatives, identify strategy-aligned grant proposals, and lead submissions for various funders (e.g., NSF, Ascendium, IES) for cross-team projects targeting the buildout of interventions and technologies aimed at improving student success in higher education.• Design and conduct mixed-methods (e.g., quantitative, qualitative) studies employing diverse methodologies for education technology start-ups focused on both higher education and K-12 student success and well-being.• Build WGU Labs brand awareness through creation and dissemination of research reports, blog posts, and conference findings for both technical and non-technical audiences.• Maintain relationships with external clients throughout project scope.

• Scoped, designed, and executed implementation and efficacy studies for education technology start-up clients (e.g., determine appropriate research design, deliver surveys, conduct analyses, write client reports).• Led multi-disciplinary team of learning experience designers, education technology CEOs, and university administrators for project aimed at implementing new university model for WGU.• Communicated research findings to broad audiences (e.g., start-up CEOs, administrators, academic audience) through written and visual presentations• Led submissions of grant proposals (e.g., IES) to support Labs research endeavors.

• Investigated how perceptions of threat within the school environment shape social and academic outcomes of underrepresented students.• Empirically designed and tested social-psychological interventions that helped students reconstruct how they perceive possible threats in their environment. Interventions shown to improve grades for students who are ethnic/racial minorities, as well as for women in STEM domains.• Trained in the following analytic methods: ANOVA, regression, hierarchical linear modeling, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, multilevel modeling.• Collaborated with researchers from Psychology, School of Education, Learning Science and Policy, administrators, and college support staff (e.g. Career Development Office, Freshman Tutoring).• Awarded $10,000 Provost-led grant to analyze university historical data and psychological measures to aid in creation of behaviorally-informed advising for pre-med intending freshmen.

• Collaborated with 15+ researchers at universities nationwide to analyze efficacy of academic intervention aimed to improve transition to college.• Investigated how student identification with multiracial identity deferentially impacts outcomes (e.g. graduation rate, retention rate, GPA).

• Investigated gender disparities and discrimination within the workforce.• Coordinated lab activities in Stereotyping and Gender lab. • Coded surveys investigating gender discrimination within social contexts.• Examined racial and gender stereotype disparities through use of online participant surveys.