I’ve held several roles at GenForward, including:

• Associate Director (Aug 2022 - Nov 2022)
  • Manage and direct work across all organizational functions, including
    • Quantitative Research and Analysis
    • Community Outreach
    • Partnerships
    • Communications and Media Relations
  • Administer annual operating budget, including developing multi-year budget forecasts and identifying and securing additional sources of funding and revenue.
  • Execute the organization’s operational and overall strategic plan.
• Director of Survey Research (July 2021 - Aug 2022)
  • Led all aspects of survey research efforts (strategic planning, metric design, data collection & analysis).
  • Supervised the work of team members in executing approriate statistical analyses.
  • Delivered data products such as topline reports, policy memos, and data visualizations to diverse audiences.
  • Communicated research findings to various stakeholders, including journalists, community advocates, academic researchers, and policymakers.
• Data & Analytics Consultant (Aug 2020 - July 2021)
  • Wrote scripts in R to establish efficient analytic frameworks, improve data analysis workflows, decrease reporting turnaround times, respect respondent privacy, and expand organizational capacity.
  • Defined metrics and measurement strategies to capture more accurate data on complex topics.

The work of tenure-track professors is varied and broad. Among others, my duties and responsibilities included:

• Conducting solo and collaborative research projects from conception to publication.
• Presenting original research at professional conferences, workshops, and invited lectures.
• Evaluating the research of others as a peer-reviewer for academic journals and providing appropriate feedback to both editors and researchers.
• Reviewing research proposals and organizing panels for disciplinary conferences.
• Designing and teaching undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on topics related to research methodology, public opinion, social inequality, race and identity, and American politics.
• Overseeing the progress and completion of doctoral dissertations and master’s and undergraduate theses.
• Directing the work of graduate research fellows and teaching assistants.
• Serving on the following committees:
  • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Designed and launched a climate study to understand equity and inclusion challenges to craft recommendations and inform reforms.
  • Graduate Placement
    • Organized workshops, drafted resources, and offered written/oral feedback to support students seeking academic and industry job opportunities.
  • Undergraduate Education
    • Executed a survey of current undergraduate majors to evaluate alignment between student career goals and department offerings, measure levels of satisfactions, and identify areas of improvement and innovation.
    • Recommended curricular reforms, including structural changes to existing majors and minors as well as the design of a new undergraduate minor in social justice.
  • Executive
    • Advise the Chair on vision and administrative needs, including the hiring new faculty.
• Formal affiliations with:
  • Center for the Study of Diversity
  • Center for Political Communication
  • Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies

The Monkey Cage’s mission is to draw on the expertise of academic scholarship to provide in-depth analysis, illuminate the news, and inform civic discussion. As an Editor, my responsibilities included:

• Translating complex and dense academic studies into accessible articles for a non-technical audience and general readership.
• Diversifying the pool of contributors, topics, perspectives, and research methods published.
• Staying up to date on academic research to appropriately identify publication opportunities.
• Evaluating research submissions on the basis of rigor and the potential to expand public understanding.

Affiliated with Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, my work included:

• Collaborating with scholars across disciplines to design, field, and analyze original surveys.
• Cleaning data and performing statistical analyses.
• Creating data visualizations and co-authoring survey reports to tell compelling data stories and deliver data insights to diverse audiences spanning a broad range of technical expertise.

I held several roles and responsibilities at Princeton, including:

• Graduate Researcher, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics
• Instructor, Princeton Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
• Diversity Fellow, The Graduate School
• Member, Special Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Graduate Mentor, Freshman Scholars Initiative