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Principal Research Lead, Effective Instructional Strategies

- Research (50%): Conducted mixed-methods primary research on effective instructional practice and managed program evaluation services team.
- Strategic Leadership (20%): Built organization’s theory of action and provided ongoing internal learning and marketing support.
- Business Development (30%): Supported sales enablement for program evaluation services and product-independent learning, primary SME for RFP development

Senior Research Scientist, Professional Learning

- Research (50%): Conducted research on effective instruction and impact of professional learning.
- Program evaluation (50%): Developed and executed program evaluation as a new service offering.

Research Scientist

- Research (75%): Executed primary and secondary research on product innovation, teacher and administrator use of assessment data, and assessment validation.
- Product development (25%): Served as SME on new product development in social-emotional learning

Administrator, Human Subjects Division

- Compliance (75%): Conducted independent analysis of biomedical and behavioral research studies for compliance with federal and state laws.
- Administration (25%): Advised researchers on ethical research conduct and supervised execution of human subjects requirements.

Team Leader

- Research (75%): Supported development and implementation of first national review of teacher preparation programs, including data gathering and analysis.
- Management (25%): Led team of evaluators in data gathering and analysis

College of Education

PhD — Leadership, Policy, & Organizations in K-12 Systems

• Dissertation: Ties and Talk: Tracing the Work of Informal Teacher Leaders Through Mixed Methods Social Network Research.
• Committee: Michael S. Knapp, Robert Abbott, Ann Ishimaru.
• PhD Certificate: Mixed Methods Educational Sciences
• Teaching Experience: Qualitative Methods in Educational Research, Mixed Methods Educational Research.

Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

PhD Certificate — Public Policy and Management

College of Arts and Sciences

BA — Politics

• Honors in classical philosophy and the social sciences

EdTech Genome Project Technical Committee

EdTech Evidence Exchange

Provided methodological and professional consulting as part of a working group on factors of educational technology implementation for this University of Virginia-led initiative.

Clark Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administratio and Policy

National Council on Educational Administration (NCEA)

Participated in a pre-doctoral mentorship program for emergent scholars in educational leadership and policy.

CREST Fellowship (Total Value: $150,000)

University of Washington & US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences

Awarded pre-doctoral fellowship focusing on mixed methods research and the P-20 continuum in education. Obligations included regular pro-seminar work, research fellowship with a variety of faculty, and active development of an independent research agenda.

Economic Policy Innovation Prize (Total Value: $10,000)

Hamilton Project (Brookings Institution)

Awarded best undergraduate paper prize for policy paper arguing for improving rural health care provider recruitment and retention through remote certification and professional development.