Skills
Strong: R, Shiny, LookML, git
Intermediate: SQL, GIS, Python, ML
Have experience: Airflow, Tableau

Professional Experience

Promise Pay
Analytics Engineer 11/2021 - Present
First full-time data hire at values driven start-up working to make it easier for folks with low income to access government services

  • Building data models and configuring tools to enable coworkers to access data and analysis on their own, while working with them to guide questions and data context

  • Maintaining data pipelines using dbt, BigQuery, Looker, Airflow

  • Developing dashboards and reports for external government and private sector stakeholders

Family Independence Initiative (now UpTogether)
Director of Analytics        09/2016 - 04/2021
Led a small team conducting analysis, designing surveys, and building data tools and pipelines for growing organization facilitating and researching the intersection of unrestricted cash and social capital support in low income communities

  • Scaled up internal data tools, automated reports, updated pipelines (R, Shiny, SQL, some Airflow, some Python) as organization grew from 2,000 to 200,000 members over course of 2020

  • Created strategies for how data collection and analysis work supported progress toward goals of long term systems change

  • Developed relationships with other researchers, academics, and consortium groups to coordinate on research questions and policy experiments, and to create collaborative policy reports

  • Worked with Communications team on briefs and memos using data, visualizations, member stories, and broader context to tell compelling narratives

Larimer Consensus Group         
GIS & Housing Planning Intern         06/2016 - 08/2016
Developed multiple mapping tools to enable community-based group to make data informed decision about housing development in the neighborhood

  • Incorporated publicly available datasets with survey responses using Esri's Survey123, and developing web app maps for public input

  • Analyzed neighborhood patterns to make policy recommendations

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists
Broadcast Negotiator & Organizer         04/2012 - 06/2015

  • Negotiated labor contracts including drafting proposals and final language

  • Gathered and interpreted data on industry trends, calculating local contract costs, analyzing worksite data to further campaign goals

  • Crafted comprehensive plans for multiple campaigns, including contract fights, local union's involvement in statewide legislative campaign, and push to increase member engagement

  • Coordinated communications for a diverse coalition, including labor unions, businesses, and city officials, working to pass state legislation on entertainment industry business incentives

American Federation of Teachers
Organizer     03/2011 – 04/2012 

  • Designed and implemented strategic plan to mobilize workers across 200 worksites, incorporating research of political landscape, community contacts, funding streams, and analysis of previous campaigns

  • Managed Excel and Access databases and drafted campaign messages for use in multiple organizing drives, including projects in CA, WA, and NY

  • Presented detailed budget proposals in understandable manner to community members

Community Organizing

Showing Up for Racial Justice at Sacred Heart
Organizer     09/2017 - Present

  • Organizing white folks in Santa Clara County to be actively anti-racist by engaging in community organizing campaigns in partnerships with organizations led by POC

  • Campaign to stop new jail construction in County and invest in community alternatives, coalition of impacted families and ally groups

  • Contributed to published op-ed, drafting scripts and bullet points for public comment, developed house party outreach communications and turnout plans

  • Built R Shiny app to pair activists for one-to-one base building conversations, currently designing activist database in Airtable

Sacred Heart Community Services
Housing Action Committee Volunteer       01/2014 – 02/2015

  • Analyzed city reports regarding impact of new market rate housing on affordable housing need and availability

  • Engaged in successful political and community campaign to pass local Housing Impact Fee, including meeting with City Council members

  • Crafted messages around affordable housing for public presentations
    Organized and facilitated training sessions for diverse groups of new community activists

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, H. John Heinz III College, Pittsburgh PA 05/2017
Master of Science, Public Policy & Management – Data Analytics Track
Students for Urban Data Systems, Assistant Director of Data Projects
Heinz Policy Radio, Show Host

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 05/2008
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Urban Neighborhoods

Selected Projects

  • Capstone: Analysis of Washington’s Legal Marijuana Market
    Processing large public dataset to understand product safety and market dynamics
    Methodology includes statistical analysis, regression discontinuity, difference in differences, synthetic control, and text analysis and classification

  • Capstone: Council of Governments Code Enforcement
    Generated monthly reports for each participating municipality using R, Markdown and SQL to provide insights and visualizations about code enforcement practices
    Communicated with non-technical government client to assess needs and scope project

  • Students for Urban Data Systems, Asst. Dir. of Data Projects
    Organizing events aimed at making data accessible to wide audience
    Working on causal model to explain disparities in outcomes of negotiated plea deals
    Created map of over 100 police jurisdictions in the county and examined policy implications