Top image: Teaching a class I co-developed at NYU
In November 2024, I served to review abstracts for the Health Humanities Conference 2025 conference.
In October 2024, I served to review abstracts for Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2025 conference.
08/2021 - August 2024: Secretary, Statistics without Borders
In this role, I assised the Chair of SWB in managing the day-to-day issues that arise at Statistics Without Borders. as well as help the Executive Committee plan our strategy.
08/2021 - 08/2023: Director: Marketing and Communications, Statistics without Borders
One of my responsibilities as the Director of Marketing and Communications was to interview volunteers and clients, to get a better idea of their experiences, and disseminate their work to the world.
- I spoke with our client Bridge to Health on their experiences. Bridge to Health "works with local partners to provide sustainable, cost-effective healthcare through clinical service provision, research and educational and capacity-building programs that are relevant and appropriate for the needs of the community."
- I interviewed our client at Ground Truths Solutions to talk about their experiences working with SWB. Ground Truth Solutions "envisions a humanatarian system that fully recognizes the agency the people it plans to serve, and is responsive to their views, preferences, and needs."
- Chat with SWB volunteer Bryan Sayer
In this role, I manage the marketing and communications needs of SWB. I work with with statistics and data science professionals to promote and display what SWB and its volunteer members do. On the right is an example of a newsletter that was sent out to SWB volunteers in Fall 2021. Below is a video I helped create that describes the work of the Marketing and Communication directorate at SWB.
A few of the activities I do are:
A few of the activities I do are:
- Update and maintain SWB website
- Guided the transition of the SWB website to a new platform
- Create content, blog pieces, case studies to highlight SWB's impact in the world
- Ideate and update SWB social media (Linkedin, Twitter)
- Organize networking events for SWB volunteers. Here are a few networking events I coordinated and facilitated:
- Visualizing data with R & ggplot
- Politics, Product, and Peanut Butter: A Decade in Statistics & Data Science
- Introduction to Neural Networks with Prannay Khosla
- Improving collection of real-world data: experience of young Mexican women with breast cancer with Judy-Anne Chapman
- Additionally, I worked on this article on a collaborative effort between SWB and the Committee on International Relations in Statistics (CIRS).
- Schmidt AM, Iyengar S. First CIRS/SWB webinar draws a large international crowd. This article can be found here at Amstat News - the membership magazine of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
- An Introduction to Small Area Estimation
- An introduction to Bayesian Inference
- Deep learning: Opening the Black Box
- Positioning Household Surveys for the Next Decade: Data Integration and Inclusion
- Causal inference in statistics: why, what, and how
- Introduction to Bayesian Modelling of Epidemics: From Population to Individual-level Models
- Recording and slides to come
- Recording and slides to come
- I moderated a session entitled "An Introduction to Spatial Statistics with Applications to Disease Mapping" with the Committee on International Relations in Statistics (CIRS) as part of its webinar series.
- Strategize and develop videos like the ones on our Youtube channel (and the video below)
- I helped develop this video on what SWB volunteers can expect once they sign up to receive communications from us
- Guiding development of volunteer-contributed articles; for example:
- R Function of the Week: Pipe + Mutate (March 2022)
- R function of the week: Getting more out of the read.table() function (March 2022)
- R Function Of The Week: ifelse() vs. if_else() (April 2022)
- R Function Of The Week: apply() and sapply()(April 2022)
- R Function Of The Week : Writing Editable R objects to PowerPoint (April 2022)
- Statistics without borders: an overview (May 2022)
- Strategize and develop newsletters for our members (an example is in the PDF document below)
| SWB Fall 2021 newsletter |
In In August 2022, I presented SWB's annual meeting to appraise existing and new members on the progress made at SWB in the last year. A recording of the meeting can be found here.
I interviewed Fil Potempski, Programs Manager at Bridge to Health USA (a client of SWB) about the project that Bridge to Health did with SWB. The video can be found here.
I interviewed Fil Potempski, Programs Manager at Bridge to Health USA (a client of SWB) about the project that Bridge to Health did with SWB. The video can be found here.
Open Online Statistics Courses: a collaboration between SWB and AIPD
I helped strategize a dissemination plan for one of SWB's biggest project - an open online statistics course series. This project is a collaboration between SWB and AIPD; the introductory video can be found here., and additional videos are on SWB's YouTube site. SWB has developed a collection of learning videos covering a broad range of topics on statistics. These are freely available to anyone who would like to review or explore basic statistics, the statistical programming language R, econometrics, biostatistics, and monitoring and evaluation.
In August 2022, I moderated a panel for SWB for these Open Online Statistics Courses.
I helped strategize a dissemination plan for one of SWB's biggest project - an open online statistics course series. This project is a collaboration between SWB and AIPD; the introductory video can be found here., and additional videos are on SWB's YouTube site. SWB has developed a collection of learning videos covering a broad range of topics on statistics. These are freely available to anyone who would like to review or explore basic statistics, the statistical programming language R, econometrics, biostatistics, and monitoring and evaluation.
In August 2022, I moderated a panel for SWB for these Open Online Statistics Courses.
Open Online Statistics Courses: a collaboration between SWB and AIPD
In Spring 2023, I represented SWB at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Working Group. This working group "comments on the initial proposals from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards".
In Spring 2023, I represented SWB at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Working Group. This working group "comments on the initial proposals from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards".
Positioning household surveys for the next decade" Data integration and inclusion
In March 2023, SWB and the Committee on International Relations in Statistics organized a webinar entitled "Positioning household surveys for the next decade, Data integration and inclusion".
"Established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2015, the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) aims to foster improvement in the scope and quality of social and economic statistics as delivered through national, regional and international household survey programmes. Three major objectives of ISWGHS are (a) fostering coordination; (b) promoting advancement and harmonization of survey methodologies; and (c) communicating the importance of household surveys."
In March 2023, SWB and the Committee on International Relations in Statistics organized a webinar entitled "Positioning household surveys for the next decade, Data integration and inclusion".
"Established by the UN Statistical Commission in 2015, the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS) aims to foster improvement in the scope and quality of social and economic statistics as delivered through national, regional and international household survey programmes. Three major objectives of ISWGHS are (a) fostering coordination; (b) promoting advancement and harmonization of survey methodologies; and (c) communicating the importance of household surveys."
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08/2021 - 05/2023: Co-director, NY Chapter of WCAPS
WCAPS-NY is the New York branch of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), a platform dedicated to advance the leadership and professional development of women of color in the fields of international peace, security, and conflict transformation. My team and I organized an Open House event in September 2021 to celebrate four years of WCAPS and one year of the NYC chapter. In October 2022, I helped host an event around sexual violence and abuse against Black migrants. In September 2022, I also helped co-host an in-person happy hour for WCAPS New York chapter. In February 2022, I helped strategize around a social media campaign for Black History Month (below). I also helped coordinate another event in February 2022 entitled“Fighting for Asylum: The Situation of Haitians at the US-Mexico Border”. |
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05/2021 - present: Co-director, Mental Health Sub-Working Group
The Mental Health Sub-Working Group of WCAPS aims to facilitate safe spaces, group discussions and other events to help raise Mental Health Awareness for the WCAPS members and to work with other WCAPS Working Groups to provide mental health support for those within the WCAPS community and in the future, for the WOC/BIPOC communities at large. A few events that we organized, or are in the works are: Happy Hour/interest meeting in August 2021. |
Additional activities:
- July 2022: Along with the WCAPS Latin American & Caribbean Region Working Group, I moderated a webinar on the Mental Health Impacts of Violence on Women.
- November 2021: A webinar series with Beyond Conflict. The first one in November 2021 was entitled "Addressing Trauma through Science and Storytelling", where the program directors of the Trauma and Violent Conflict arm of Beyond Conflict talked about chronic stress and trauma, and the latest efforts of Beyond Conflict in addressing this issue.
- October 2021: A campaign for Global Mental Health awareness Day in October, including being invited for the World Mental Health Day Hackathon with Essteem.
- September 2022: Along with the Redefining National Security (RDNS) working group of WCAPS, I helped organize a moderated conversation centering mental health and the national impacts of Roe v. Wade's overruling.
05/2021 - 02/2023: Chapter co-director, NYC New Leaders Council
The mission of NLC NYC is to build a pipeline of diverse leaders in every sector of society who will create a more progressive New York City. To get there, we unite emerging leaders from every industry (beyond politics and government) and outside of traditional power structures, in order to form a strong progressive network in NYC.
I work with about 30 NLC members in the various committees listed below with an aim of selecting and training the next generation of NYC's progressive leaders.
The mission of NLC NYC is to build a pipeline of diverse leaders in every sector of society who will create a more progressive New York City. To get there, we unite emerging leaders from every industry (beyond politics and government) and outside of traditional power structures, in order to form a strong progressive network in NYC.
I work with about 30 NLC members in the various committees listed below with an aim of selecting and training the next generation of NYC's progressive leaders.
- Advancement committee: Designs and implements the Chapter's fundraising strategy, ensures that successful fundraising events are held, tracks budget & write/raise commitments.
- Recruitment committee: Develops and executes robust recruitment strategies and coordinates Chapter activities to identify and secure applicants that are diverse in all respects.
- Institute/curriculum committee: Designs and implements the Institute curriculum for the Chapter, which includes sourcing reliable, dynamic, and diverse trainers.
- Selections committee: Coordinates the selections process and ensures that the process is fair, thorough and done in a professional manner.
- Alumni committee: Develops and executes alumni engagement strategies and ensuring that Chapter alumni remain actively involved in and supported by the Chapter.
- Communications committee: Promotes NLC’s activities and values while maintaining NLC NYC's social media accounts and website.
- Mentorship committee: Identifies and recruits mentors and pairs them with Fellows currently participating in the NLC Institute.
- With other members of the NLC leadership, I helped organize a NLC Bash in April 2022 for alumni and fellows to network and interact.
In November 2022, the fellows organized NLC NYC’s Chapter for JOY + PLAY: A night of celebrating, healing, and building community with a showcase of local leaders and artists. The event will feature Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, spoken word artists, Kujegi Camara (Bronx-based, NLC Fellow ‘22), and Fanta Ballo (Harlem-based, youth poet) to perform original pieces. Alicia Maule, the Digital Engagement Director at The Innocence Project, will DJ throughout the night.
The fundraiser raised more than $4,500 which will go towards programming for 2023. Below are some pictures from the event:
