Resume

Experience:

Policy Data Analyst
Office of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander
New York, NY | 2023-present

Analyze, find, and generate data to identify and expose inequities in City services, pinpoint ways City agencies can perform better, develop concrete policy reforms, and improve government transparency.

• Engineer structured, spatial data from ad hoc city records.
• Use a range of statistical, data science, and spatial analytic tools to find credible insights and communicate these findings for policy makers.
• Build data visualizations and interactive tools to communicate key messages and allow exploration of City data.

Graduate Research Assistant
NYU Furman Center
New York, NY | 2022

• Built data pipelines to extract, transform, and load large-scale, spatial datasets used for critical policy research on affordable housing and urban planning.
• Created interactive maps and data visualizations.

Urban Analyst
Localize.city
New York, NY | 2019-2020

Researched neighborhoods and produced hundreds of succinct summaries to highlight what makes places unique and how areas are likely to change.

• Found, created, and combined data to offer valuable insights, like projecting future construction, mapping food deserts, and identifying areas at risk of flooding.
• Created maps and visuals to illustrate neighborhood dynamics.

Policy Associate
Transportation for America
Washington, D.C. | 2012-2018

Developed and analyzed policy, managed outreach programs, and worked with elected leaders to enact legislative reforms prioritizing city needs.

• Trained city leaders and helped launch successful ballot measure campaigns that secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding for public transit.
• Advocated for and helped implement state laws to set performance measures that prioritize safety, sustainability, and economic opportunity in states’ selection of transportation projects.
• Researched transportation policies and wrote easy-to-understand reports on why policy reforms were needed to make urban transportation systems benefit city residents.

Education:

M.S. in Applied Urban Science
New York University: Center for Urban Science and Progress
New York, NY | graduation: August 2022

4.0 GPA. Scholastic Award.

Relevant coursework:

• Applied Data Science
• Advanced Spatial Analytics
• Data-driven Methods for Policy Evaluation
• Civic Analytics

B.A. in Government
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT | 2011

Graduation with honors.
3.79 GPA.
Certificates in Environmental Studies and International Relations.