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FUN

• Check out my mobile app, LaughDraft.

GRANTS, TRUST FUNDS, AND HONORS 

• Recipient, World Bank-IMF Fulbright Network proposal call, $50,000, 2018.

• Grant recipient (with Wameq Raza), Y2Y Youth Innovation Fund, $10,000, 2018.

• Grant recipient (with Pedro Carneiro, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Katia Herrera Sosa), Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, $150,000, 2018

• Trust fund recipient (with Ana Maria Munoz Boudet and Katia Herrera Sosa), Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE), $150,000, 2018

• Others: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016; Data Incubator Data Science Fellowship, 2015; University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, 2014; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014; George Mason University, 2013-2014; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Global Financial Inclusion Initiative, 2013; IPA Financial Capability Research Fund Matchmaking Event in Peru, 2013; Evidence on Innovations in Financial Capability, 2013

• SRA International employee bonuses (two separate awards) recognizing performance, 2011

RELEVANT PRESENTATIONS

• ISI World Statistics Congress, “Using Statistics to Change Behavior,” 2019

• World Bank-Kuala Lumpur Half-Baked Seminar, “Bridging the gender career gap via language and de-biasing,” 2019

• World Bank HD Week, “Mental Health and Development,” 2019

• Others: The National Association for Business Economics Economic Policy Conference, 2017, 2016; The Fulbright Association’s 40th Annual Conference, 2017; World Bank Geospatial Day showcase, 2017; SciMed Graduate Research Scholars Poster Session, 2013, 2014.

TRAINING PROVIDED

• Panelist, Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners (ASAP II), "Advanced analytics for data-driven decision-making and action," 2023

• Trainer, "Pre-Country Operational Plan (COP) data workshop" (USAID), 2023

• Panel member, Maryland Institute College of Art, Data Analytics and Visualization Capstone Presentations, 2021

• Trainer, “Behavioral Insights” (The World Bank / Youth Action Group), 2019

• Trainer, “Behavioral Insights” (The World Bank EFI Conference), 2018

• Trainer, “Behavioral Insights for Human Development” (The World Bank), 2017

• Trainer, Data Collection in Experimental Economics Certificate Program (Innovations for Poverty Action), 2015 

• Grader, ECON 474 Economic Problems-Developing Areas (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2014 

• Tutor, MAT 300 Statistics (Strayer University), 2013 

BLOG POSTS

• Using behavioral sciences and laboratory experiments to test hiring solutions, World Bank internal Blog, forthcoming.

• Depression and its links to conflict and welfare in Nigeria, World Bank Nasikiliza Blog, 2018 (with K. McGee, G. Oseni, R. Sato, and T. Tanaka) (external coverage: JPAL, The Guardian); I also wrote the policy briefs here and here.

• Using behavioral sciences to teach fitness: A (sometimes unwilling) student’s perspective, World Bank People, Spaces, Deliberation Blog, 2018.

LANGUAGES

• Mandarin Chinese (lived and worked abroad for over ten years in China / Taiwan) 

• Spanish (intermediate-high; have led or co-led projects in Costa Rica, Paraguay, and the DR) 

• French (just started!)