Survey Scientist, Survey Operations at Morning Consult (Analytics and Data Operations) (August 2023-)

• Execute survey projects for multiple multinational tracking studies (for many large fortune-500 companies) including fielding in 20+ countries in multiple languages across 14 different teams

• Coordinate survey design, sampling, data collection, weighting schemas, and deliverables production in concert with partners in the Research Solutions division, culminating in over 150 collaborators and 400 tasks in the last 6 months alone

• Train junior team members on specific data and quality assurance standards via R Studio

Principal Investigator: Political Socialization by Celebrity: Exploring the Influence of Celebrity Activism on Youth Political Attitudes and Behavior (May 2021-May 2023 at UH)

• Planned, built, and executed three original survey experiments focused on understanding the state of youth political socialization today in an era dominated by social media and celebrities/influencers

• Designed novel survey experiments, instruments, and stimuli for sampling on both student populations and diverse representative samples via Qualtrics programming

• Analyzed and communicated visually and numerically the results of said findings to both a wider, more general audience and at academic conferences and subsequent academic journal submission

Research Consultant: APSA & Protect Democracy Task Force on Political Parties and the State of Democracy in the United States Today (October 2022-April 2023 at Protect Democracy)

• Assisted in gathering empirical data on trust (or distrust) in political parties both in the United States and around the world historically and in the 21st century (gathered data on 81 countries and trust in institutions such as press, police, armed forces, parliament, national government, and parties)

• Focus was on exploring the extent to which distrust in political parties is any different today than in the past and what that distrust in institutions helps reveal about the state of democracy

Core Quantitative Researcher and Database Manager: Political Party Database (Rounds 1 and 2) (June 2019-August 2021 at University of Houston)

• Worked closely with the PPDB research database team (primarily Dr. Susan Scarrow) on the collection, maintaining, and distribution of both rounds 1 and 2 of the PPDB (see PPDB Database)

• Process included collecting, coding, and coordinating with other members of the PPDB team internationally

• Converted data collected for Round 2 into R, SPSS, and STATA platforms to be housed and made publicly available on Harvard Dataverse

• Cross-checked data for inconsistencies, variable and value label errors, and checked website for errors

• Data for round 1a collectively covers 122 parties in 19 countries between the years 2010-2014; round 1b covers an additional 24 parties and 6 countries; and round 2 data covers 288 parties in 51 countries with over 450 variables

Quantitative Methods Graduate Lab Instruction (August 2021-May 2023 at University of Houston)

• Focused on the planning, design, and implementation of the Quantitative Methods I and Methods II labs for the statistics sequence for UH Political Science graduate students

• Taught weekly labs instructing graduate students in R Studio and LaTeX

• Primarily centered on teaching early-stage statistics on probability theory, hypothesis testing, linear and logistic regressions

Quantitative Researcher: Measuring American Legislatures Project (January 2020-May 2021 at University of Houston)

• Worked under the leadership of Dr. Boris Shor on various research projects funded through his Russell Sage Foundation grant

• Primarily focused on identifying and upkeeping his state legislative ideology (Shor-McCarty) dataset to maintain and track the ideology of state legislators and their roll call votes at the state level (see Measuring American Legislatures)

• Additionally focused on tracking the state endorsements of 2020 Democratic candidates for president at the state level

Co-Principal Investigator: Twitter as a Policy Feedback Loop? Immigration and Law Enforcement Attitudes (May 2021-May 2023 at University of Houston)

• Study centers on understanding the extent to which state-level policy around immigration affects individuals’ public reactions and attitudes on Twitter (co-PI: Sam Chapa)

• Using Twitter’s API, web-scraped in R over 100,000 tweets geo-tagged in Texas and Florida around the time of Texas’ passage of SB-4 in 2016-2017

• Collected the data, cleaned the data, and performed multiple sentiment analyses and unsupervised machine learning techniques to gather sentiment and word/phrase frequencies

• Performed difference-in-difference and fixed effects analyses to measure the effects of state-level policy introduction of anti-immigrant feedback among Latinos and white Americans

General Research Assistant Experience at University of Houston (August 2018-May 2023)

• Course management and grading for eight difference graduate and undergraduate courses—both substantive and quantitative based

• Assisted in the collection, coding, and cleaning/upkeep of 4+ datasets pertaining to state legislative behavior and votes

Quantitative Skills

• Survey sampling, design, and implementation

• Experimental survey design and implementation

• Textual analysis and web-scraping

• Multivariate analyses

• Significance and hypothesis testing

• Probability theory

Programming Languages and Coding Skills

• R Studio

• R

• LaTeX

• R Markdown

• Qualtrics

• Tableau

• Python

• Microsoft Office

• Conflict of Interest Course - Conflict of Interest in Research Course Certificate at CITI Program

• Human Research - Social-Behavioral-Educational Researchers Certificate at CITI Program

• Responsible Conduct of Research - Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research Course Certificate at CITI Program