about

We live in a world where policies are made by people, and people are persuaded by evidence. When this evidence is grounded in data, one graph, one statistic, or one value shared by a data scientist can fundamentally sway a policy decision.

Our work as data scientists can substantially impact the lives of people whose data we use but who we will never meet.

My passion is for work at the intersection of data and policy. I recognize that this is a privileged and powerful space and comes with a responsibility to 1) ensure quality research that actively engages stakeholders, including impacted communities 2) improving tech culture and supporting increased diverse representation of tech contributors and 3) advocating for accountability among entities that are increasingly embracing data science and AI technologies.

I look forward to continuing this work.

work

Data Science + Policy + Ethics

5 Steps to Take as an Antiracist Data Scientist

"Being antiracist data scientists isn’t a one-time decision or something we will ever fully achieve, but instead a commitment we make each day..."

Synthetic Student Cohorts in Education

Research completed for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation exploring opportunities to use synthetic student cohorts for education research

Modeling COVID-19 Hospital Demand in North Carolina

Member of team using agent-based modeling and Python to forecast North Carolina hospital bed demand during the COVID-19 pandemic

Machine Learning Text Classification for ICD-10-CM/health codes

Research with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) exploring opportunities to use machine learning techniques to predict ICD-10-CM codes

Seeing Higher

Co-founder and current president of Seeing Higher, with a mission of making college visits more accessible.

The Work is Hard, but the Impact is Real

"As I prepared to make my own leap up the ladder of socioeconomic mobility, it was important for me to reach around for others who shared my background."

Bonus! Outdoors

Life Goal to Visit Every National Park!

As of Dec 2020, I've visited 9 of them (Acadia, Channel Islands, Glacier, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah, Yellowstone, Yosemite)

Climbing Adventures!

Interested in rocks, walls, and hopefully going upward!