PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Politech, Lead Data Scientist/Software Engineer

Lead Data Scientist/Software Engineer November 2023 - Present

Lead Data Scientist November 2021 - November 2023

• Developed and refactored reporting for the Blocks web app; principally used Elixir/Ecto
• Contributed new features and maintained existing features for the Blocks web app. Worked mainly on the back-end, but also contributed to the front-end.
• Managed and updated geopolitical database with spatial data to reflect redistricting
• Created and maintained district matching API
• Integrated district and voter-file matching APIs into Blocks web app
• Created R package for interacting with our systems to clean, process, and prepare our data for analysis

YouGov, Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist April 2019 - November 2021

Data Scientist September 2017 - March 2019

• Created models, analysis, and data visualizations in R with tools including tidyverse, broom, ggplot2, Shiny, and RMarkdown
• Built R and Python packages and a REST API using Python, github, and an Amazon API Gateway
• Leveraged spatial data in R using the sf package
• Managed survey projects with Innovations team and with YouGov Blue
• Created an inclusive gender question project where I worked with teammates to facilitate the adoption of an inclusive gender question
• Created, ran, and analyzed criminal justice reform/reimagining survey project
• Served as line manager for a full time direct report and managed seven contractors and three cycles of interns
• Coordinated projects with teams in different countries
• Programmed surveys; cleaned, weighted and delivered survey data
• Managed 2020, 2018, and 2016 Election Data Projects; Scraped election night data
• After leaving YouGov, I continued to volunteer on inclusive gender question project that I started early in my career

The Ghana Center For Democratic Development, Research Intern

Summer 2016

• Performed data analysis on Ghananian pre-election survey
• Assisted with projects centered around local politics

Stanford University, Research Assistant

Summer 2015

• Worked under Professor Lisa Blaydes on her project “Inside Iraqi Authoritarianism”
• Conducted research on the robustness of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the period following the First Gulf War
• Performed various data manipulation and data analysis related tasks using R and mapped quantitative data using ArcMap

Global Integrity, Intern

Summer 2014

• Conducted research on governance and health
• Helped to coordinate a conference on women’s political participation
• Generated sales leads for Global Integrity’s Indaba research platform

EDUCATION

Stanford University

Class of 2017

• B.A.H. Political Science, Research Honors Track
• Member of Pi Sigma Alpha Honors Society
• GPA 3.78/4.00
• Senior Honors Thesis: “Why Democracy Fails?” Explores the effects of election timing and electoral systems choice on the stability of a democratic system.
• Coursework on topics: Comparative Politics, Political Institutions, Political Behavior, Research Design, Machine Learning, Data Science, Programming Abstractions, State Building and Development, Democracy, International Relations, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American Politics and History
• Studied abroad in Cape Town, South Africa

SKILLS

• Proficient in R, Python, Elixir, Ecto, PostrgreSQL, Github, the tidyverse, pandas, shiny applications, sf, ggplot2, RMarkdown, and Javascript
• Proficient with data management, data cleaning, data dashboards, data analysis, machine learning, data visualization, web-scraping, pdf scraping, reporting, software engineering, and full stack development
• Experienced with spatial data, census data, and voter-file data
• Experienced with HTML, Ruby, CSS, C++, C, Java, Octave, and QGIS
• Experienced with AWS tools, creating APIs and interacting with databases

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

KEEN, Coach

2022 - Present

• Coached athletes with disabilities in basketball, tennis, swimming and dance

Polygence, Mentor

2022

• Mentored a high school project as they worked on a data driven research project

Data Kind, DataDive Volunteer

September 2021 and December 2022

• Created an interactive map to visualize house loss in Miami-Dade County
• Cleaned spatial data and created an interactive map to visualize food prices in Kenya on a project for Save The Children

Saratoga Federated Church, Buddy

2007 - 2019

• Buddy for neurodiverse children and young adults among other roles

Kids With Dreams, Vice President, Founder KWD Basketball Program

2013 - 2017

• Vice President and Board Member of club facilitating programs for neurodiverse people and people with disabilities
• Founder and President of KWD Basketball Program
• Buddy for neurodiverse adults

Men and Youth Teaching Each Other, Mentor

2014 - 2015

• Mentor for middle school boys

Night to Shine, Volunteer

2016 - 2019

• Volunteer at four annual proms put on for neurodiverse young adults.