Research, strategy, and implementation for complex problems.
I help mission-driven organizations turn complex questions into credible evidence, actionable strategy, and systems that move work forward.
My practice brings together applied research, data and evaluation, strategy, program and project design, organizational learning, curriculum and professional development, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, research translation, and implementation.
Impact At A Glance
20+ engagements
40+ substantive products
600+ stakeholders engaged
70+ presentations
$100K research funding secured as PI
Bring Me In When...
You need credible research to guide a consequential decision.
You have a complex question, incomplete evidence, multiple stakeholder perspectives, or data that needs to become usable insight.
You have an ambitious project that needs structure.
The goal may be clear, but the research, workstreams, roles, decisions, deliverables, or pathway to implementation are not.
You have a strategy but need to make it operational.
You need plans, workflows, systems, measurement, stakeholder processes, learning, or accountability infrastructure.
People need the knowledge and tools to carry the work forward.
You need curriculum, professional learning, facilitation, technical assistance, decision tools, or a multi-session learning experience.
Selected Work Snapshot
Black Migrants & U.S. Immigration Courts
Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Multi-year funded research combining interviews, demographic analysis, institutional research, policy analysis, convening, and public dissemination.
$84K external research funding secured as PI
EXPLORE THE RESEARCH: Behind Closed Doors
Metropolitan Economic & Demographic Research
Women’s Institute for Science, Equity, and Race
Applied economic and demographic research and development of repeatable metropolitan Data Portrait infrastructure.
Approximately 16 million observations
VISIT WISER: Women’s Institute for Science, Equity, and Race
Long-Term Feminist Strategy
African Women’s Development Fund
Research, ecosystem analysis, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, synthesis, and strategic-framework development.
EXPLORE LEMLEM: AWDF Lemlem Strategic Framework
Policy Analysis, Power Mapping & Persuasive Advocacy
National Black Worker Center
Five-part professional-learning engagement combining curriculum, applied tools, office hours, advising, and capstone support.
VIEW THE INSTITUTE: National Black Worker Center
What can we build together?
Organizations rarely need “research” or “strategy” in the abstract.
They need to understand something, decide something, build something, strengthen something, or move something forward.
My engagements are structured around those outcomes.