Selected Projects, 2010-2024

Note: Page under construction.

Applied Projects: Impact estimation; surveys & survey analysis; data visualization; writing for public & practitioner audiences.  As an academic researcher, I also maintained a small consulting practice. Since 2022, applied research has been my main job, first at Code for America and now at Meta and partnering with the Jews of Color Initiative.

Close-up image of a bar graph from my 2024 project estimating the population of US Jews of Color (Jews of Color Initiative). Click for JoCI website.

Link to description of Code for America's child care assistance partnership with the state of Illinois (2023). My impact estimates for this project led to significant strategy changes, such as building a provider portal (in addition to a family portal).

Image: A slide explaining types of indirect impact, prepared for Code for America as part of my work on impact attribution (2023).

Link to "New Perspectives on Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence," a blog post for practitioners that I co-authored in 2021.

Still image from an animated map of COVID cases by county, by week, January 2020 through December 2022. (Personal interest project.)

Image via Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington Ave., Philadelphia. Click for Pew Report "Philadelphia's Small and Midsize Business Landscape," on which I consulted in 2019-2020. This is how I learned SQL!

Still image of a multilayer map of West Philadelphia. In 2019, I assisted the Children's Community School with site selection by mapping Census data on income and poverty, transit data, and childcare shortage data.

[CW: Linked post discusses suicide.] Image from, and link to, a 2017 blog post, "Academia, Mental Health, and the Cult of Productivity," written following the death by suicide of a widely loved colleague and mentor.

Link to a blog post I wrote reflecting on 10 years of partnership with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (2017).

Link to (and image from) 2016 BBC coverage of my work, with Dara Kay Cohen, on a "zombie statistic" (very wrong, won't die) about wartime sexual violence in Liberia. TLDR: Inflated statistics make actual emergencies, like the one in Liberia, look small.

Link to 2013 United States Institute of Peace Special Report on Wartime Sexual Violence, co-authored with Libby Wood and Dara Kay Cohen. This piece is aimed at practitioners and is--by far--my most cited work.

Link to my 2013 Women's Media Center explainer "The Devil's In the Data," on how gender dynamics of sexual violence are reproduced in data on sexual violence.

Link to English version of a short book, co-authored in 2011 with Tamy Guberek and Francoise Roth, on quantitative data as a tool for assessing wartime sexual violence in Colombia.

Image of UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict staffers, making their characteristic "STOP" gesture. I was proud to serve UN Action as Knowledge Management Expert during 2011. Click for more on UN Action.

Academic Work: Teaching; curriculum development; scholarly research.​  During my academic career (roughly 2010-2022), I published 30+ peer-reviewed articles and chapters, as well as my "dissertation book," ​The Commander's Dilemma ​(2018).