PROFILE

I am a versatile entrepreneurship, education, and nonprofit professional interested in technological development, analyzing data, interviewing people, reading and writing, tutoring, and taking photos. I am a graduate of the University of Virginia, a public university founded by the author of the Declaration of Independence, and I received dual degrees in the liberal arts and sciences from the school. I believe in the core values of lifelong learning and a renaissance education, which the founder of the University of Virginia taught and shared with both students and the country’s citizens. I also recognize that there have been injustices in our history, and I work daily to contribute to a more equitable world.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

BA in History | August 2010 - May 2014

• Advisor: Sophia Rosenfeld
• Navigated a university founded in 1819 with 17,011 enrolled students and connected the dots between liberal arts and science classes
• Major Papers: History of Children’s Play in the Victorian Era, History of Musicology during the Scientific Revolution
• Relevant Classwork: Computer Science I, Statistics I, Linear Algebra, Calculus II, Digital Information Studies, History of Scientific Revolution, History of Entrepreneurship, Humanity and Technology in 2035
• Award: International Residential College Leadership
• Studied and worked in Argentina, Scotland, and the Dominican Republic
• Completed final undergraduate work with straight As

MS in Data Science | July 2014 - December 2015

• Capstone Advisor: Laura Barnes
• GPA: 3.91
• Trailblazed through the first year of the Data Science Institute and brought a liberal arts lens to engineering
• Relevant Classwork: Systems Engineering 101
• Award: Best Paper at 2015 SEIDS Conference in the Healthy and Safety Track for “Predictive models for severe sepsis in adult ICU patients”, a paper that presents results of 8 machine learning models for predicting severe sepsis
• Studied and worked in Ireland
• Received straight As

WORK EXPERIENCE

RICHMOND NATIONAL

Incoming Data Analyst | October 2024-Present

HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS

Teacher Assistant | June-July 2024

• Assisted a 1st grade teacher in the classroom to help maintain order
• Graded classwork to help students understand what they did correctly or incorrectly
• Led small group reading activities with up to 4 students at a time
• Built relationships with students in the classroom to support them socially, emotionally, and academically
• Received and applied training on positive discipline to engage students in the learning process while disciplining them
• Taught students to be responsible stewards of the earth by exposing them to science concepts related to sustainability and helping them create an upcycled art project throughout the summer
• Took photos of students engaging in activities to support the organization’s communications

THE LITERACY LAB

Literacy Tutor | August 2022-June 2024

• Completed two AmeriCorps service years as a literacy tutor in a school
• Assisted classroom teachers to help maintain order in the class
• Administered assessments to benchmark students
• Conducted one-on-one tutoring sessions with 12 K-2 students per day using evidence-based literacy interventions to support successful reading
• Helped children improve their reading skills and abilities to support them reaching grade level expectations
• Entered data for all current and exited students into a system to contribute to a data-driven approach
• Received training on topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion to contribute to a more inclusive school system

FORKIDS

Volunteer Data Analyst | August-December 2023

• Gathered data online from public sources on affordable housing in Hampton Roads to prepare for data analysis
• Converted addresses to geographic coordinates and analyzed data to prepare for mapping the data
• Created a map of affordable housing to help the organization understand how to serve families

HORIZONS HAMPTON ROADS

Substitute Teacher Assistant | June-August 2023

• Assisted 3rd, 5th, 7th grade, and 8th grade teachers in the classroom to help maintain order
• Co-taught for a part of the day to lead class through worksheets and material they were learning
• Built relationships with students in the classroom to support them socially, emotionally, and academically

HARNESS MAGAZINE

Contributing Writer | August 2022

• Submitted and had approved three poems for publication to share with a community of women

VIBRANT WORLD

Freelance Researcher Consultant | August-December 2019

• Interviewed stakeholders to understand how they use and fund open source software
• Created a survey to share with people in the social sector to gather information on software usage
• Analyzed data to understand trends and patterns
• Produced work to support the development of a written report

Breastfeeding Center for Greater Washington

Systems Researcher | January-May 2019

• Interviewed 10 system actors to understand how organizations play a role in helping breastfeeding mothers
• Led secondary research to paint a systems picture of how organizations influence the breastfeeding rate in DC
• Completed 6 online classes to learn how to guide the community with systems goals, maps, and narratives

Design for the Homeless

Design Researcher | February-May 2019

• Organized 5 interviews with community members to understand experiences of people facing homelessness
• Practiced photography to capture observations of the needs of people experiencing homelessness visually
• Developed a user persona to summarize the profile, goals, frustrations, and needs of people interviewed

Compass Pro Bono

Strategic Alignment Consultant | October 2016 - June 2019

• Clients: Jubilee Jumpstart, Homeless Children’s Playtime Project, The Welders
• Write client engagement letters to communicate the organizational challenge, project goal, and project plan
• Develop and design surveys to understand organizational stakeholders’ opinions on organizational change (expansion and relocation)
• Conduct interviews and focus groups with organizational stakeholders to understand their experiences and the organizational needs
• Collect and analyze data to develop strategic recommendations on organizational change (expansion and relocation)
• Participate in board’s strategic planning and alignment meetings
• Meet with a team of MBA and JD graduates once to twice per month

DataKind

Data Analyst, Data Ambassador, Project Manager | July 2016 - May 2019

• Clients: Earth Challenge 2020, Google for AI Impact Challenge, Community-Based Care Florida, Accountability Counsel, American Red Cross, Global Financial Integrity, DC Office of the CTO
• Collaborated to develop maps, machine learning features, a foster care case complexity score, and more on teams of volunteers in-person and remotely (tools used include SQL, R, Python, Git, Trello, Amazon)
• Reviewed over 25 project proposals to support Google’s AI Impact Challenge in partnership with DataKind

EVERFI

Data Analyst | April 2016 - January 2019

• Owned data-driven white paper writing, educational impact evaluation management framework development, exploratory data analysis, initial product requirements discussion, project tracking, and cross-functional teamwork
• Wrote two-three white papers per year covering trends in digital education and insights from survey analysis to support partner education and company-wide thought leadership (digital literacy white paper, impact report paper, paper on K12 students’ sense of belonging)
• Developed a technical framework to streamline the process of reporting 2,000 survey and assessment data points
• Developed and presented eight product KPIs to develop standards around measuring the success of product initiatives
• Clustered survey and assessment data, and perform principal component analysis on assessments to support efficacy research
• Gathered and synthesized information from sales and support teams to develop research services solutions proposals
• Partnered with product stakeholders and software engineers to support generating initial platform vision and requirements
• Delivered knowledge management documents to support teamwork and deliver epics, user stories, feature specification documents, and acceptance criteria to articulate platform and dashboard requirements
• Tracked tasks, projects, processes, and roadmaps using Jira, agile sprints, and story prints to influence personal commitments (completed online training on Jira usage best practices)
• Participated in three weekly team manager-led scrum meetings to share goals, obstacles, and retrospectives
• Collaborated with a database expert in India to deliver data requests to internal stakeholders and work with engineers to help maintain data integrity in database

Clarity Campaign Labs

Analyst Fellow | January 2016 - April 2016

• Analyzed data on political candidates and their platform, which supported political campaign strategy development
• Taught staff how to conduct a regression analysis, which strengthened firm’s research
• Created maps of national voter scores to support a key client, which resulted in a Medium blogpost, What does Donald Trump think of voters in Tuesday’s primary states?

BluestoneLogic

Project Management Systems Analyst and Chatbot Designer Intern | December 2015 - January 2016

• Applied a systems methodology based in MECE principles and Google’s design sprint methodology to support defining a problem of poor integration of project management workflow tools
• Interviewed users to gather and specify project management system requirements
• Brainstormed, tested, and designed project management system ideas, which resulted in a prototyped solution for a task management chatbot aligned with requirements
• Demoed the final solution, which enabled the firm to engineer a workflow solution and write a blogpost on the final results
• Completed ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems training

LEADERSHIP, VOLUNTEER, AND EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE

America India Foundation

Event Particpant and Committee Member | March 2018 - June 2019

UVA

5 Year Giving Committee | July 2018 - July 2019

Byte Back

Next Gen Council Member and Data Process Mapping Project Team Lead | June 2017 - June 2019

White House Hack the Pay Gap

Product Designer | May 2016-July 2016

• Results: How We Hacked the Gender Pay Gap