Greetings and welcome. I am an alumnus of the Graduate program in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley.

Current Work

Currently I am a researcher at ICF International (MEASURE Demographic and Health Surveys) with Futures Institute . I conduct comparative and mixed-methods analysis of fertility, HIV, family planning, and maternal and child health.

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Dissertation

My mixed-methods dissertation sought to understand the relationship between age structure, fertility patterns, and political/economic crisis. In it I investigated the effect of genocide on fertility rates in Bosnia and Rwanda during the mid 1990s. I integrated an analysis of nationally-representative survey data with results from qualitative fieldwork. From July 2007 to March 2008 I conducted semi-structured face-to-face interviews with women aged 20-55 (n=117) and key informants (n=42) in both countries. The majority of women I interviewed in Bosnia and Rwanda were selected from the national population through a multistage cluster sample, while a small oversample of survivors of rape and torture were approached with the assistance of NGOs in each country (n=23).

Experience and Interests
I have twelve years of experience and training in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including three years of international fieldwork. My training has included computer programming (SAS, Stata, R, Oracle), interviewing, project management, survey analysis, and demographic projections. Prior research projects have examined age structure and the risk of civil wars, reproductive decision-making in sub-Saharan Africa, historical trends in employment, and estimates of excess mortality in East Timor during the Indonesian Occupation.

More broadly, my research interests include family planning, fertility, HIV, reproductive health, economic demography, global development, quantitative methods, comparative methods, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and South Asia.

Curriculum Vitae

My Curriculum Vitae in pdf format.

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