Hi! My work experience has been in the banking and finance (pre-PhD, using a MS in Statistics), and then over the last 17 years, I've worked in the educational sector. I have worked as a classroom special education teacher and a state-level subject matter expert. My research experience includes work completed towards my PhD, where my research provided predictive validity evidence to a secondary (grades 9 - 12) transition assessment. I have also worked in program evaluation and general disability specific research at a university research center. My research portfolio linked above describes some of the work I've done more in detail. I am working on some side courses in both computational social science and R programming to further enhance my research skills. I have strong data analysis skills, but would not call myself a data scientist. I recently left the university research environment and am about to begin using my education knowledge in a more hands-on matter, but I want to keep my research skills sharp while also helping any organization that could use my knowledge. My past volunteer work has been hands-on with people, such as a camp counselor for a camp for children with cancer hospice, or hospital volunteer. Due to COVID, those opportunities are on hold. I began looking for "big data for good" opportunities and found your website. I have conducted both qualitative and quantitive research, but consider myself more of a quantitative researcher capable of doing qualitative research if the research questions and study design dictate it is needed. I would love to work with a more experience researcher (initially) and am open to any kind of work beyond education.