Experience

Sustainable Marblehead

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer, Clean Energy and Public Policy Working Group

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  • Identified a Marblehead-eligible EPA EV bus rebate program to procure EV school buses. • Spearheading town initiative for GHG emission data collection and reporting, utilizing best practices. • Developing a home energy efficiency and historic home retrofit 2024 community outreach program with the goal of helping residents learn about how to reduce emissions. • Identified a Marblehead-eligible EPA EV bus rebate program to procure EV school buses. • Spearheading town initiative for GHG emission data collection and reporting, utilizing best practices. • Developing a home energy efficiency and historic home retrofit 2024 community outreach program with the goal of helping residents learn about how to reduce emissions.



University of Luxembourg

• Luxembourg
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Propel Project on Housing Inequality

  • Sep 2021 - Apr 2023

  • Developed a research agenda on housing affordability in the US and Europe, utilizing Gantt charts, time blocking, and project completion time estimates to ensure timely project delivery. • Co-authored a pivotal study on how financial strategies impact housing outcomes among millennials in the US, published in Housing Studies, the top peer-reviewed journal dedicated to housing research. • Lead a 5-person team for an extensive database project. The project resulted in the production of 18 new policy indicators of housing rental benefits across 5 high-income countries to advance measurement for housing policy research. • Coordinated the deadlines and project goals for one graduate student intern and two post-docs for the database project. • Organized and lead all team meetings for the database project. • Mentored two graduate student team members in data analysis and indicator creation, contributing to their professional growth. • Gain experience about how to design experimental surveys. • Co-designed a survey to investigate the factors leading to low rental benefit take-up in Luxembourg in collaboration with the Luxembourg Ministry of Housing, highlighting my ability to work closely with stakeholders to address policy issues. • Assisted with copyediting and formatting of the survey design questions in Qualtrics. • Presented at 4 conferences and workshops in the US and Luxembourg (online and in-person), leveraging research expertise in housing and childcare policy to advance research and contribute to policy discussions in these fields. • Successfully learned how manipulate and use two multiply imputed datasets (Survey of Consumer Finances and the Household Finance and Consumption Survey). • Conducted statistical analyses of collected data using STATA and Excel. Show less



The Graduate Center, City University of New York

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• PhD Researcher, Political Science Department

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2021

  • Developed research expertise around issues of gender and policy in the US and around the globe. • Conducted innovative dissertation research using the LIS data and an original work-family policy dataset to advance the understanding of the relationship between leave and childcare policies and gender employment inequalities across 24 high-income countries. • Employed advanced multi-leveling techniques to analyze data. • Developed an original public-use policy database and documentation with 21 new policy variables that measure different aspects of leave and childcare policies in 31 countries (US, Europe, and Latin America) to advance measurement of gender inequalities in leave and childcare policy. • Collaborated effectively with researchers across universities in the US, Iceland, Sweden, and Luxembourg to execute interdisciplinary projects and leverage collective expertise. • Co-authored an innovative study in a top-tier peer review sociology journal (ESR) that introduced a new income measure that values time spent on unpaid work in the home (childcare and housework) to analyze intra-household income inequalities across 6 high-income countries. • Successfully secured grant funding for 11 research projects totaling over USD 85,000, demonstrating grant writing skills. • Synthesized and communicated research findings at 15 conferences and workshops in the US and Europe, successfully relaying research to both academic and non-academic audiences. • Collaborated with top level university administration to plan and implement the first lactation room and the first parental leave policy for doctoral students as a member of student services committees. • Sole or co-author of four additional publications aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy makers enhancing insights into social inequalities, in-work poverty, and family leave best practices. Show less



Hunter and Queens Colleges

• New York, New York, United States

• Instructional designer and teacher (undergraduate level)

  • 2015 - 2021

  • Instructed over 125 students online and in-person in topics of public policy, social policy and media and politics; 90 of these students were enrolled in the prestigious Roosevelt House Public Policy certificate program. • Received consistently high reviews for teaching effectiveness and passion (6.13 on a 7-pt. scale, Hunter College; 4.65 on a 5-pt. scale, Queens college). • Created clear and measurable learning objectives, catering to diverse student backgrounds. • Mentored and provided letters of recommendation to over a dozen students to support their professional growth and upward social mobility. • Taught a range of qualitative research methods including most similar and most different case study designs. Show less



UN Women

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Consultant

  • Aug 2018 - May 2019

  • Contributed quantitative and writing skills to the UN’s key report on global gender equality issues to make policy recommendations to world leaders that can improve gender equality. • The report links the necessity of gender equality within families to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2015. • Gained valuable insight about collaborating with stakeholder member nations to produce UN reports. • Translated data into actionable insights for policy makers, including trends in women’s labor force participation rates (LFPRs) by sex and marital status and poverty rates of lone mothers. • Managed and improved the functionality of the Statistical Data Manager (SDM). • Created public use data annexes within the SDM to facilitate public access to statistical information and contribute to data transparency. • Used Stata and Excel to manage, clean, merge data, perform statistical analyses, replicate results, and visualize data. • Collaborated with a team member to write sections of and implement feedback for chapter 4 “An Income of Her Own.” Show less



Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Documentation Specialist

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2018

  • Gained expert knowledge around social welfare policies of 24+ high- and middle-income countries to adapt country-level data from household income surveys to the common LIS variable template. • Gained insight into data-use agreements with member countries.• Wrote and maintained the LIS documentation best practices document to streamline methods for adapting national household income data to a standardized template.

• Research Associate

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2016

  I supported the activities of the Stone Center including assisting PhD students with the use of the LIS data and related documentation, brand and website development, formatting and editing of book chapters for a volume about economic disparities and the middle class, hosting receptions for the Directors of National Statistics Offices, and the organization of an outreach campaign targeted to a global research community to increase LIS data utilization.



The World Bank

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Consultant

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Used panel data (25 waves) from an experimental pilot mobile phone survey (Listening to Africa, L2A) carried out in Tanzania to design a study that showed mobile phone credits, regardless of amount, are not linked to response rate attrition. This study advanced what we know about how to collect high-quality data in low-income countries using mobile phones. • Actively collaborated with colleagues from our non-profit research partner Twaweza in Tanzania to strengthen cross-border research partnerships. Show less



Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Physician Office Assitant

  • Apr 2010 - Aug 2011



Language Services Provider

• Account Executive, Linguistic Validation Group

  • Sep 2009 - Apr 2010



International Communications Provider

• Sales Associate

  • Jun 2008 - Sep 2009



World Trade Center Illinois

• Intern

  • 2007 - 2007