Education

With Honors and Highest Distinction Phi Beta Kappa Minors in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics and Social & Economic Justice MacDonald Community Service Fellow Buckley Public Service Scholar (HS) North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Education

	B.A. in Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
Phi Beta Kappa / Honors and Highest Distinction
	MacDonald Community Service Fellow / Buckley Public Service Scholar
HS: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Work Experience Finance and Compliance Associate, NC Democratic Party

• May 2017 - December 2018
• First-ever salaried employee while still an undergraduate (Summer '18)
• Data and Research: built targeted fundraising lists using vendor and NCDP scores; used the voter file (Votebuilder), NGP, BSD, and ActBlue for record-keeping; used Excel and WhoopDeDupe (VF-matching program) to manipulate data between databases and online sources
• Other Duties: managed expenditures and receipts, regularly assisted in both federal and state campaign finance report reconciliation, wrote and consulted on external communications, planned party events, designed branded documents, event logos, social media graphics
• Management: interviewed, taught, and supervised two interns each semester and summer

Research Experience

• Data: 2016 CCES Common Content (survey data, unweighted n = 64,600)
• Program Used: Stata (svy*, factor/rotate, margins, eststo/esttab, coefplot), R (ggplots, mapping)
• Methods: exploratory factor analysis, logit & fractional logit regressions, margins

• Data: floor speech content, roll-call vote histories, district-level Census data from AFF
• Programs and Packages/Nodes Used: Python, R, KNIME
• Methods: web scraping, text processing incl. regular expresssions, API requests, k-Means cluster analysis, RandomForest decision trees, Naïve Bayesian modeling, logit regression

• Lab/Project: "Protest in 45's First 100 Days"
• Spring 2017
• Duties: news story research, sorting, and coding into database

Skills

Statistics Programs: Stata, R

Data Mining Programs: KNIME, Weka

Programming Languages: Python, HTML

Typesetting Languages: LaTeX, Markdown

Adobe Products: Illustrator, Photoshop