Experience

Kids Forward

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst

  • Jan 2010 - Present

  Broadening the debate on budget and tax policy through public education and civic engagement. • Plan, design, and execute research reports on topics that affect the economic well-being of Wisconsin communities and families, including education finance, economic development, tax policy, immigration, and public benefit programs. • Partner with state and national lawmakers to identify policy solutions to promote the economic well-being of Wisconsin families and communities. • Support and coordinate leaders of allied advocacy organizations as they engage in the state budget process, ensuring that they have the resources and information they need to effectively promote their own agendas in the budget. • Act as a knowledge-based resource for a wide range of stakeholders in the civic engagement and budget process, including invested individuals, nonprofit organizations, opinion leaders, and national policy associations. • Communicate research findings to different audiences by authoring a broad range of materials, including blog posts, data visualizations, videos, and social media. • Regularly conduct interviews with print, radio, and television media outlets to highlight research findings. Experienced at giving interviews to both national and state-based media. • Coordinate actions with a national network of fiscal policy organizations. Show less



Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Coordinator for Program Evaluation

  • Apr 2002 - Dec 2010

  • Facilitated coordinated information-sharing and functioning of multiple overlapping public systems. Coordinated an agency-wide program evaluation to determine if Safe Harbor was meeting its objectives in serving child maltreatment victims and their families. • Worked with government partners at the city and county level to compile and assess data about local law enforcement, prosecution, and child welfare activities. • Developed and analyzed sources of quantitative information for Safe Harbor to use in strategic planning, enhancing partner agency collaboration, and securing funding sources. Show less



Mental Health Center of Dane County

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Evaluator

  • 2003 - 2010

  Created, managed, and updated a large SPSS database with records involving pre- and post-intervention measures for 5,000+ Madison area sixth graders screened for post-traumatic stress disorder. Provided program evaluation services to the Adolescent Trauma Treatment Program at the Mental Health Center of Dane County Created, managed, and updated a large SPSS database with records involving pre- and post-intervention measures for 5,000+ Madison area sixth graders screened for post-traumatic stress disorder. Provided program evaluation services to the Adolescent Trauma Treatment Program at the Mental Health Center of Dane County



Legislative Audit Bureau

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • 1999 - 2002

  Identified and developed policy alternatives for consideration of the LegislaturePublished reports on topics as varied as truancy abatement, nursing home funding, and forestry managementAnalyzed financial and other quantitative data in order to evaluate the performance of state agencies and local governments

• • 1998 - 1999

  Developed databases and spreadsheets for administrative useProvided regional supervisor with administrative and management information