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Baltimore, MD, US

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Leadership – Served as the primary point person to accelerate the organization’s growth in measurement, learning, and evaluation. Advanced Food Emergency Early Warning System research and Social Return-On-Investment.
• Evaluation & Learning – Developed research briefs, impact analyses, case studies, logic models and evaluation plans. Guided indicator management for data-driven hunger relief programs. Examples include the Maryland.
• Research – Recent work includes research reports on “The Root Causes of Hunger" (February 2024), “Food Insecurity in Maryland” (July 2022), “A Research Guide to Child Food Insufficiency” (March 2022) and “Do Pandemic.
• Learning – Improved organization-wide data analytics knowhow and trend analyses through new dashboards, community of practice exchanges and best practices collection. Led the development of a new interactive Learning.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Program Development and Evaluation—Provided research support for development of new and ongoing improvement of current programs; Summarized research on best-practices, emerging national models, and innovative new.
• Survey Analysis and Needs Assessments—Assessed emerging client and community needs. Examples include a zip-code level analysis of economic hardship, and an impact survey designed to assess the socioeconomic and.
• Policy Research & Legislation—Developed a legislative proposal, “Power to People with Critical Medical Needs,” which enables 211 MD United Way Helpline to refer more people for energy assistance.
• Return on Investment Analysis—Worked with program staff to conduct ROI analysis for primary initiatives and developed presentations to staff and Board of Directors. Completed ROI analysis of United Way’s Homelessness.
• Grant Seeking Support & Grant Development—Provided research support about innovative funding models and their requirements; Researched new grant opportunities with an emphasis on state and federal grants.

• Leadership — Senior Management Team member. Established successful national community engagement initiative (POWR), secured $5.5M in funding, elevated learnings across a network of 70+ local affiliates.
• Monitoring and Evaluation – Developed a statistical tool, Resettlement Indicators and Performance Evaluation to capture newcomer integration and program performance outcomes across all major grants.
• Proposal Writing and Grant Reporting – Contributed content to several successful multi-million-dollar proposals with DOS, ACF/HHS, as well as privately-funded projects. Regular reporting on multiple grants and.
• Research, Publications, Learning – Developed research collaborations with social scientists, edited a community of practice to track relevant research. Lead organizer of 14 successful national immigration conferences.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Results Framework — Developed an agencywide results framework to measure progress against global indicators, as well as faith-based and project-specific data points.
• Proposal Writing and Grant Reporting – Contributed content to several successful multi-million-dollar proposals with USAID, OFDA, OCHA, DKH, UNICEF. Regular M&E report contributions.
• Evaluation – Coordinated external and internal evaluations (Jordan, Ethiopia, Greece), developed Terms of Reference with contractors, provided MEAL guidance, published recommendations and donor reports.
• Learning Library – Developed a Monitoring and Evaluation Learning Library that provides access to hands-on learning materials for humanitarian aid workers, with the goal of maximizing the positive impact of relief work.
• Beneficiary Impact – Completed a 2017 beneficiary study to capture the reach and impact of IOCC’s humanitarian aid work across 15 country operations.

Baltimore, MD, US

• Monitoring and Evaluation—Developed Monitoring and Evaluation systems for projects related to employment performance outcomes and self-sufficiency metrics.
• National Publications – Managed the production of RefugeeWorks (renamed Higher Advantage) nationally circulated publications, including a quarterly newsletter, website, electronic listserv, and white paper series.
• Research – Researched immigrant employment and recertification solutions and disseminated best practices among voluntary agencies, ethnic community groups and employers.
• Education – Provided individual technical assistance to refugees, political asylees and other immigrants, as well as human service organizations, job developers, employers, NGOs, and government partners. Collaborated.
• Proposal Development – Developed proposals for grants and projects, including federal and private donors.

Youngstown, OH, US

- Adult Education—Taught Professional Writing and Editing, Feature Writing, News Writing and Selected Topics in Journalism. Served on faculty committees and as an advisor for student senior projects for journalism majors.- Mentoring—Faculty advisor for the student newspaper, The Jambar, the student poetry journal, The Penguin Review and the YSU student.

Lansing, Michigan, US

- Writing – Researched and bylined one cover story per month for this alternative newsweekly, following a traditional AP style.- Research – Specialized on investigative journalism projects that involved multi-sourcing, archival research, public records request and investigative journalism. - Impact – Stories picked up by other outlets include “Living with.

- Research – Employed as a social science and media analysis senior researcher and assistant director.- Networking & Conference Planning – Networked with scholars in Germany, the U.S. and South Africa and managed a $2.5 million annual budget and research staff of 25. - Data Analysis – Conducted quantitative analysis and wrote regular reports for state and.

- Magazine Writing: Worked as the Chief Reporter for Kreuzer: the Leipzig City Magazine, a city illustrated magazine covering politics, the arts, local economy and media. - Research: Specialized on in-depth investigative journalism covering local politics and city government and concentrating on hard-hitting topics such as immigration and racism, local.

Worked in Germany and the U.S. as news reporter and staff writer for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as magazines. Reported on topics such as green economy, refugee & newcomers, the working poor, local politics, and criminal justice. Magazine articles of mine have appeared in In These Times, Z Magazine, The Ann Arbor Observer, and Die Welt (Berlin.

Konstanz, DE

Worked as a journalist for a regional daily newspaper, specializing on local politics and investigative environmental journalism. An archive of my English-language publications is available at www.sturmstories.com

Master Of Arts - Ma, Comparative Literature, Anthropology Of Religion

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Anthropology Of Religion; Literature

Fellowship/Certificate, Print Journalism