SELECTED WORK
A portfolio of research, strategy, learning, organizational systems, and implementation engagements.
Each project is different. What remains consistent is my ability to make complex problems legible, create structure around the work, generate credible evidence, translate what matters, and produce something useful.
Black Migrants & U.S. Immigration Courts
Ohio Immigrant Alliance
Principal Investigator • Research Lead • Author
The Challenge
Black migrants' experiences within the U.S. immigration-court system were significantly under-researched, including the ways race, institutional processes, and adjudication shape experience and outcomes.
My Role
Led the initiative from research framing and design through evidence generation, analysis, knowledge products, convening, and dissemination.
The Work
Mixed-methods research • interviews • demographic analysis • public and federal data • policy research • institutional analysis • research synthesis • stakeholder engagement • public scholarship
Scale
$100,000 in external foundation research funding secured as Principal Investigator
60+ participants engaged through the Dystopia, Then Deportation strategy convening.
Selected Outputs
The Value
A single research problem became a multi-product evidence portfolio supporting policy analysis, public education, stakeholder engagement, and continuing organizational work.
Metropolitan Economic & Demographic Research
Women’s Institute for Science, Equity, and Race
Senior Researcher
The Challenge
Large public datasets contain significant policy-relevant information, but producing useful disaggregated analysis requires rigorous research and repeatable analytical infrastructure.
The Work
ACS/IPUMS analysis • survey-weighted analysis • demographic and economic disparity analysis • subgroup analysis • data cleaning • validation • recoding • variable construction • table specification • methodological documentation • visualization • research translation
Scale
Approximately 16 million observations in the current five-year ACS analytical extract.
The Value
The work combines substantive analysis with the standards, documentation, and quality-control infrastructure required to produce that analysis consistently.
Women’s Institute for Science, Equity, and Race
Lemlem: Ten-Year Strategic Framework
African Women’s Development Fund / I.G. Advisors
Lead Researcher • Co-Facilitator
The Work
Desk research • stakeholder interviews • ecosystem analysis • synthesis • facilitation • strategic analysis • board engagement
The professional evidence bank documents this as research and facilitation supporting AWDF's long-term strategy development.
Evidence
AWDF Lemlem Strategic Framework
The Transforming African Feminist Funding Ecosystem
The Value
Research, movement knowledge, stakeholder perspectives, and institutional priorities were synthesized into strategic intelligence supporting long-term organizational decision-making.
African Feminist Research Ecosystem
AfriFem Consortium / African Women’s Development Fund
Ecosystem Research • Research Synthesis • Knowledge Strategy
The Work
Research examining the scholars, institutions, relationships, resources, knowledge systems, and structural conditions shaping African feminist research.
The Value
Making a complex knowledge ecosystem more legible for decisions around collaboration, knowledge production, institutional relationships, movement infrastructure, and resourcing.
Read the African Feminist Research Ecosystem Report
Policy Analysis, Power Mapping & Persuasive Advocacy
National Black Worker Center
Curriculum Designer • Facilitator • Advisor
The Work
Designed and facilitated a five-part applied professional-learning series combining:
Policy analysis • power mapping • stakeholder analysis • research translation • persuasive advocacy • interactive exercises • decision tools • office hours • individualized advising • capstone support.
The Value
The engagement was designed not simply to transfer information, but to strengthen participants' ability to apply research and policy analysis to real advocacy and strategy work.
National Black Worker Center Policy and Advocacy Institute
Beyond Borders
University of San Diego — Violence, Inequality and Power Lab
VIP Lab Non-Residential Fellow • Researcher
The Work
Interdisciplinary research integrating scholarship, data, policy evidence, and expert interviews concerning systemic and transnational violence affecting Black migrants.
Output
Beyond Borders: Confronting Transnational Violence Against Black Migrants