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Supported leadership & capacity building, child health quality and delivery system reform projects:• Managed the Medicaid Leadership Institute (MLI) and Medicaid Academies in New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island.• Generated considerations for using alternative payment and delivery system models to drive innovation in adolescent care.• Managed technical assistance efforts for provider organizations in Rhode Island on topics such as health equity, behavioral and primary health care integration, effective patient engagement, etc.

• Managed outreach and education around the Affordable Care Act to connect more individuals to Medicaid coverage.• Managed outreach and education to build support for the early identification and intervention of substance misuse through a screening for youth in high school settings (SBIRT).

• Conducted reviews of academic literature related to community colleges and workforce development.• Assisted with qualitative data coordination and collection.• Composed detailed notes from recorded interviews and focus groups with community college students, faculty, administrators and employers.• Coded qualitative data using NVIVO software.• Synthesized data collected from various qualitative sources to generate findings.• Assisted in writing evaluation reports and briefings.• Developed and implemented surveys of students, faculty, administrators, and employers using Qualtrics.

• Examined New Jersey’s Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) and proposed actionable recommendations for improvement in written report.• Conducted phone interviews with Workforce Development Board Directors in assigned counties to provide evidence in written report for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD).• Conducted literature review of work experience programs in the context of welfare systems in other states to validate how CWEP in New Jersey can enhance its employment outcomes.

Newark, New Jersey

• Researched trends in inclusive tourism and corridor activation.• Researched best practices in tourism, marketing, and economic development(international and domestic).• Performed business development for EMI.

Philadelphia

• Collaborated with employment specialists and instructors to ensure immigrants assimilate smoothly into American society by helping connect work-authorized candidates to employers.• Coached participants in the Welcoming Center’s education and training programs to succeed with their educational and vocational goals, such as obtaining their GED or professional skills. Taught high school level math and reading to those seeking their GED.• Oversaw development and implementation of training programs in resume building and English speaking.

Philadelphia

• Provided administrative support for the management of agency investigations.• Provided assistance in ensuring agency adheres to compliance issues related to grant funding programs.• Assisted management staff in providing oversight to subordinate units that manage state grant submissions and reports.• Assisted administrative officer with processing of personnel actions, job classifications and pay/benefits matters.• Coordinated with regional employers to assist veterans in obtaining employment opportunities. • Attended and coordinated local job fairs and other agency outreach activities.• Attended to veterans’ inquiries and concerns regarding opportunities for employment as well as resume improvement and interview training.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation• Traveled to Pakistan in June 2014 and interviewed migrants in Lahore, Punjab who lived through the Partition of British India.• Used research findings as preliminary work for senior thesis, which focused on South Asian migrants in western diaspora.

• Assisted Dr. Beth Uzwiak with administrative tasks, such as paperwork and grading assignments for students of “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (Anth102).• Occasionally ran discussion groups with students.

Orange Walk, Belize

• Engaged in ethnographic fieldwork via participant observation, conducting ethnographic interviews (occasionally in Spanish), researching ethics, unobtrusive observation, field note writing and coding, ethnographic and life history interviewing, ethnolinguistic data collection, community mapping, rapid assessment procedures, qualitative data analysis and basic ethnographic writing• Personal and collective research efforts culminated in a community-based project in which the field school partnered with the Sugar Industry Research and Development Institute (SIRDI), which was interested in understanding the household economy and agricultural knowledge of sugar cane farmers in the Orange Walk District village communities• Research results and recommendations based on interviews and observations were used by SIRDI to develop and conduct workshops for farmers on agricultural techniques, economics, health, and other community development topics

Master Of Public Policy, Economic Policy

Bachelor Of Arts, Anthropology, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Teaching & Learning Initiative, Muslim Students Association, South Asian Students, Bi-Co Orchestra