Kim Cárdenas, Assistant Project Manager

Kim Cárdenas is RSS' Assistant Project Manager. She has worked at RSS since June 2023 and has worked on a number of qualitative research projects. At RSS, Kim has analyzed qualitative data, contributed to written reports, fielded phone interviews for the Urban Institute, recruited hard-to-reach populations, coordinated a client translation project, conducted and summarized cognitive interviews for U.S. Census. Prior to RSS, Kim worked on qualitative and quantitative research projects examining the political involvement of marginalized groups in the U.S., with a particular focus on Latino and LGBTQ+ of color populations. Her research has appeared in Political Research Quarterly. In 2023, Kim earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.