Resume
Experience
Consumers Energy
May 2025 - Present
Research Analyst
(Contractor via Aquent)​
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Assists in coordinating and managing external consultants to ensure research insights in relation to marketing, customer satisfaction, energy savings, peak demand reductions, and environmental justice and equity
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Ensures quality of vendor research processes, activities, and deliverables including reviewing and making improvements to research plans, timelines, survey instruments, presentations, and reports
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Conducts primary and secondary research to identify trends and opportunities related to program evaluation, energy policy, peak demand management, decarbonization, and equity
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Develops research summaries and briefings to communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences
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Maintains and organizes accessible databases of research data and deliverables
United Nations Foundation's Clean Cooking Alliance
September 2021 - April 2025
Manager, Evidence & Impact
(April 2023 - April 2025)
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Senior Associate, Evidence & Impact
(Sept 2021 - April 2023)
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Oversaw survey design, data collection, and impact measurement as part of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team
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Managed CCA’s portfolio of impact research projects equating to ~1M USD of funding through their life cycle with projects adhering to budget and scope, including work in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti
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Contributed to program evaluation for projects funded by organizations including Global Affairs Canada, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, US EPA, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
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Oversaw design, management, and outreach of the Clean Cooking Catalog, an online resource of cookstoves and testing data that can be used by policymakers, researchers, private sector, and other stakeholders
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Served in a ‘manager’ capacity as one of five staff members for Qualtrics and KnowledgeHound systems
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Developed and maintained web based ESRI StoryMaps on CCA-funded research and topical educational areas
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Served as the primary point of contact for the Implementation Science Network (ISN)’s Science to Policy Academy, a virtual workshop series, which helped six countries operationalize sector research findings in their national policies
Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab, University of Michigan
September 2019 - August 2021
Graduate Research Assistant / Graduate Energy Poverty Fellow
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Worked on the NSF funded grant Confronting Energy Poverty: Building an Interdisciplinary Evidence Base, Network, and Capacity for Transformative Change. Projects focusing on the evaluation of clean energy interventions in Southern Africa as it relates to gender, energy access, the environment, and health outcomes
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Analyzed data for impact evaluation of two major cleaner cooking interventions in Lusaka, Zambia
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Conducted extensive literature reviews on topics including social capital, poverty-environment traps, and a state of knowledge on energy supply and access for Zimbabwe
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Designed maps and conducted other spatial analysis tasks for FUEL Lab research outputs including peer-reviewed papers, proposals, and external lab communications for funders
Education
2019-2021
MS Sustainability and Environment
University of Michigan
Rackham Professional Development Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate
Specializing in: Environmental Policy and Planning & Geospatial Data Sciences
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Relevant coursework: Program Evaluation, Program Management, Multivariate Statistics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Environmental Policy and Politics, Spatial Data Analysis, Social Science Research Methods
2015-2019
BA Geography
UNC Greensboro
Magna Cum Laude
Concentrating in: Earth/Environmental Science and GIS
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Relevant coursework: Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Sustainable Development, Human and Political Geography
