Projects

Carolina Collaborative for Early Childhood Innovation
PLANNING: DECEMBER 2022 – DECEMBER 2023; COHORT 1 GRANTEES: JANUARY 2024 – DECEMBER 2025

Collaborated with the North Carolina Partnership for Children and several members of the collective affiliate non-profit networks to design a process to spur, fund, and test early childhood innovation resulting in a 2025 Notable State Document winning Evaluation Toolkit and accompanying series of Collaborative Learning Workshops. Initial cohort of grantees: Lee, Pickens, and York County First Steps.

First Steps Local Partnership Needs Assessment and Strategic Planning
OCTOBER 2022 – MAY 2023; APRIL 2025 – JUNE 2025

Developed and implemented needs assessment, strategic planning, and performance measurement processes for 46 affiliate non-profit organizations

First Steps Knowledge, Information, and Teaming System
MARCH 2021 – JUNE 2025

Led internal project team and serve as primary vendor liaison for $1.5 million 2+ year build, migration of legacy data, and implementation of a custom program and case management solution for managing 10,000+ active cases and 500+ active users across 70+ state-level staff and 35+ programs implemented by 46 independent non-profits and 300+ child care centers; oversaw staff who manage the day-to-day operations of testing and piloting the system

Your Voice Matters 
JUNE 2020 – JUNE 2025

Launched ‘Your Voice Matters’ initiative and initiated 12 rapid-cycle client feedback loops with 2,800+ respondents; manage staff, who coordinate day-to-day operations of feedback loops; liaise with Listen4Good, our initial funder

South Carolina Early Childhood Integrated Data System 
MARCH 2020 – JUNE 2025

Led development and execution of data governance at the Early Childhood Advisory Council, through supervision of staff and direct leadership, and facilitate agency participation in 2 child-level integrated data initiatives – the Early Learning Extension of the K-12 Longitudinal Data System and the Early Childhood Data Center

South Carolina Birth through Five Plan — The state’s first early childhood strategic plan
PROCESS: APRIL 2020 – FEBRUARY 2022; PLAN: JULY 2022 – JUNE 2027

Spearheaded development and adoption of 7 Key Measures of Progress, data storytelling across 4 goal areas about the ongoing needs of South Carolina’s young children and families, and writing of 6 objectives and 17 strategies for young children’s health and safety

Winner, 2022 Notable State Document Award from the South Carolina State Library [here] and 2023 Legislative Research Librarians Notable Document Award from the National Conference of State Legislatures [here]

Intersection of Maternal Disability Status, Prescription Opioid Use Before And During Pregnancy, and Adverse Birth Outcomes — Doctoral Dissertation
DEFENDED JUNE 2021

The aims of my dissertation were to use administrative data answer: (1) are pregnant women with disability prescribed opioids more and at higher dosages than those without disability?; (2) is prescription opioid use during pregnancy a mediator of the relationship between the interaction of chronic pain and disability status and low birthweight, preterm birth, and small for gestational age?; (3) is the cumulative dosage of prenatal opioid prescriptions or the interaction of chronic pain and disability status associated with neonatal abstinence syndrome, admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, and length of stay in the hospital?

COVID-19 Child Care Survey
JULY 2020 – AUGUST 2020

Directed survey development, data collection and analysis, and dissemination of a survey of 1,245 parents of young children across 42 counties in South Carolina that aimed to understand COVID-19’s impact on child care and wellbeing

Also, I spend a lot of time dabbling in Tableau

Interpregnancy Weight Change and Adverse Maternal Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study — Master’s Thesis
DEFENDED JUNE 2015

Examined the association between interpregnancy BMI change and adverse maternal outcomes using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Consecutive Pregnancies Study