Applied researcher with 8 years of experience in collaborative and action-oriented research. Project management for multidisciplinary collaborations across public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Database query, data-mining, and data stewardship experience.
Data analysis, consulting for 4 activist groups using logistic regression, multiple regression to target specific communities for 9 campaigns using R and SPSS
Trained 8 community organizers on analyzing focus groups data in order to integrate NGO campaign framing with policymakers' public statements
Taught warehouse supervisor logistic regression to quantify 5 factors predicting success and minimize attrition
Webscraping and predictive analyses using Python, R, and Octave to model expected scale of accessible transit disparities
Developed 20 participatory research trainings and practices to extend 30 researchers’ analytic capacities, particularly for software-assisted analyses (NVivo, Survey Monkey, Qualtrics)
Co-developed bilingual (Spanish and English) Know Your Rights workshops for 200 migrants with 3 non-profits
Built consensus on project goals and timeline to keep 15 co-researchers on-target, on-budget, and in compliance with ethical board requirements
Prepared, reviewed, presented reports using: content analysis, thematic analysis and grounded theory. Calculated Cohen's kappa (>.8) and facilitated group dialogue to assess adequate inter-rater reliability.
Wrote recommendations, reviewed policy effects for marginalized families in communities with a combined population of 93,000 individuals
Conducted semi-structured interviews and surveys with 50 migrant families, 3 waves of data collected. Administered standardized assessments, including Woodcock-Johnson.
Performed K-means Cluster Analysis, Chi-square Independence Test, Linear Regression, One-way ANOVA, T-Tests using SPSS. Trained 11 junior researchers on SPSS on these analyses
Collected data from 8 databases to perform policy analyses and literature reviews. Described policy contexts for stakeholders
Created website to reduced skill gaps between 60 co-researchers
Collaborated with Boston Public Schools directors and educators to improve student retention for 900 students
Developed, implemented 56 hours of staff development workshops
Evaluated 9 workshops using 3 cohorts of staff survey data to assess workshop effectiveness. Trained 2 junior members on how to clean, analyze survey data
Managed over 150 education course assets for 12 faculty. Identified, reported gaps in curricula alignment.