CV

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Education

Ph.D in Economics, American University, December 2020
M.S. in Economics, American University, August 2014
B.A. in Economics & Political Science, Michigan State University, May 2010

Apr 2019 - current: Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago
- Designing and teaching courses on economics and research programming in Python and R to students in the Master’s of Public Policy program in the Harris School of Public Policy
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019: Data Scientist at the Urban Institute
- Duties include: Research, Python, web scraping, data visualization, big data with Apache Spark, R/SAS/Stata
- Supervisor: Jessica Kelly
Fall 2016: Adjunct Faculty at American University
- Taught own section of principles of microeconomics to 35 undergraduates
Sep 2012 - May 2016: Graduate Assistant at American University
- Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in micro and macro economics, agent based modeling, trade and finance
Summer 2013, 2014, 2016: Research Assistant at American University
- Wrote Stata code and batch files to process big data on a high performance computer (HPC) running LSF for an economic professor’s research
- Used Python working with an economics professor to clean and parse a large, error-filled dataset from the 1980s
- Used Python to automate the collection of thousands of records from a difficult interactive search form for an economics professor
Fall 2013: Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution
- Used Python and Stata to work with data on foreign direct investment in the Metopolitan Policy Program

Nominated for 2021 Outstanding Lecturer of the Year, Harris School of Public Policy student body
Winner of the 2016 Presidents Award for Technology Innovation in Research, Urban Institute
Winner, 2010 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum: History, Political Science and Economics, Michigan State University