Supervisor: Eric Mankowski, Ph.D.; Department of Psychology, Portland State University

General Research Team Involvement: Lead responsibilities with conceptualizing and developing relevant literature reviews, provided assistance with focus group facilitation with fellow graduate students, Provide assistance with implementation of study protocols, training of research assistants, and poster/manuscript preparation, and mentored undergraduate research assistants with research and community outreach projects.

Project Coordinator (Apr. 2014 - Present): “National Batterer Intervention Program Standards & Monitoring Survey”

• Designed, implemented, and managed a national telephone interview survey of each U.S. state’s batterer intervention program (BIP) standards and monitoring committee.
• Provided training to fellow graduate and undergraduate research assistants in conducting telephone interviews and quantitative and qualitative data analysis using the R statistical programming language and environment
• Developed a codebook for the initial team-based qualitative data analysis using the RQDA R package, and managed the team’s qualitative data analytic process by constructing and managing multiple SQL databases.“,”Created an interactive web application for disseminating the study’s findings using the Shiny R package.
• Currently developing a networking database to be implemented within the interactive Shiny application.

Primary Student Investigator (Jun. 2013 - Dec. 2016): “A Community Engaged Approach to Address Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual Minority Women”

• Designed, implemented, and managed a qualitative interview study with sexual minority women in Portland, OR.
• Developed and implemented participant recruitment, data collection, data entry and cleaning, data analysis, and reporting protocols.
• Conducted Grounded Theory-based inductive thematic analysis of the qualitative interview data, resulting in the development of a comprehensive codebook representing participants’ identities, personal histories, and specific experiences relating to gender and identity, sexual orientation, gender role adherence, gender role stress, minority stress, inter- and intra-group conflict and oppressions, and same-gender intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization.
• Evaluated a set of existing survey measures through a quantitative fuzzy-sets analysis by applying the inductively-derived codebook to each evaluated measure and assessing each measure’s coverage of the codebook’s content.
• Collectively, this mixed-methodological analytic process yielded modified definitions of key constructs related to sexual minority women’s same-gender intimate partner violence experiences, as well as insights regarding modifications needed to relevant psychological measurement tools in order to improve and optimize these tools for use with sexual minority women.

Project Co-Chair (Sept. 2013 - June 2014): “Online Training Module: ‘Creating a Respectful, Inclusive and Safe Campus: Preventing Title IX Harassment and Misconduct’ Student Responses” (Co-Chair: Sylvia Kidder)

• Lead responsibilities with designing and implementing a formal evaluation of a training module aimed at informing students, faculty, and staff about rights and responsibilities related to Title IX of the Violence Against Women Act
• Moderated and provided assistance with focus groups with current PSU students.
• Presented findings to university administrative officials from the Office of Equity and Compliance and the Dean of Student Life and co-authored final evaluation report

Supervisor: Alison J. Martin, Ph.D.; Assessment & Evaluation Coordinator

Temporary Graduate Student Staff (Aug. 2014 - June 2015)

• Entered, cleaned, and organized qualitative and quantitative data for a statewide needs assessment as part of the organization’s Title IV Federal Block Grant reporting requirements.
• Co-developed and implemented the protocol and codebook for a content analysis of the the organization’s statewide needs assessment qualitative data.
• Co-developed the write-up of the findings from the qualitative content analysis as part of the organization’s 2014 Title IV Federal Block Grant annual report to state and federal stakeholders.

Supervisors: Dominic Parrot, Ph.D., Kathryn Gallagher, M.A., & Claire Lisco, M.A.; Department of Psychology, Georgia State University

Primary Student Investigator (Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2013): Deconstructing Hegemonic Masculinity: The Roles of Anti-Femininity, Sexual Dominance, and Subordination to Women in Men’s Perpetration of Sexual Aggression.

• Lead responsibilities with conceptual development, data analysis, and manuscript preparation and submission.
• Developed and tested a moderated-meditational structural equation model hypothesizing the relations among multiple facets of masculine gender role norm adherence with heterosexual men’s perpetration of sexual violence toward their intimate partners.
• Lead responsibilities with data cleaning and management, wrote and documented SPSS syntax for data cleaning and testing statistical models, modified and then implemented the existing PROCESS and MODMED SPSS macros originally written by Andrew D. Hayes, Ph.D.
• Conducted supervised data analysis under a structural equation modeling framework using the MPlus statistical programming language and environment.

Supervisors: Sarah L. Cook, Ph.D. & Kevin M. Swartout, Ph.D.; Department of Psychology, Georgia State University

Undergraduate Research Assistant (June 2012 - June 2013)

• Provided assistance with conducting literature reviews, development of annotated bibliographies, data collection, data proofing, qualitative data coding, data analysis, training of new research assistants, and poster/manuscript preparation and submission.

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Supervisors: Nancy Greenman (Former Prevention Program Coordinator) & Megan Foster (Prevention Program Coordinator)

Prevention Liaison (June 2016 - Present)

• Serve as SATF’s Prevention & Education Subcommittee’s liaison to the Offender Management Subcommittee (OMC) by attending both subcommittee meetings, providing prevention insights and resources to OMC, and providing updates about each subcommittee’s current activities and strategic plans.

Campus Sexual Violence Prevention Workgroup (May 2016)

• Participate in monthly action planning meetings to develop and disseminate sexual violence prevention resources for higher education institutions in Oregon.
• Represented Portland State University and co-represented the Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force with the workgroup’s attendance at an invited two-day sexual violence prevention action planning meeting hosted in Atlanta, GA by the American Public Health Association and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention as part of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault’s ‘Not Alone’ project (20 - 21 July 2016)

Advisory Committee Member (June 2014 - Present)

• Provide direct support to the subcommittee’s general operations:
  • Development of information, resources and training related to sexual violence prevention
  • Technical assistance and support to local communities that are interested in engaging in prevention efforts
  • State-wide organizing to promote sexual violence prevention within specific populations
  • Administration of federal Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) funds to local programs to engage in prevention efforts in their local communities

Intern (June 2013 - June 2014)

• Provide direct support to the subcommittee’s general operations:
  • Co-Organize and lead workgroup for evaluating and revising the Task Force’s five-year prevention plan
  • Created action-planning visualization from a cross-discipline dialogue with SATF Offender Management and Victims Response Subcommittees (see resulting presentation entitled ‘Roadmap to Preventing Sexual Violence’)
  • Edit and complete committee position papers as needed
  • Assist in the creation and facilitation of committee meeting agendas.

Supervisor: Choya Adkinson-Stevens (Former Social Change Facilitator)

Volunteer - General (July 2013 - May 2014)

• Provided support in the overall and day-to-day operations of the organization, attend community advocacy trainings (see below), compiled program evaluation survey data received from program participants, and admitted individuals into building for various program events.
• Advocacy Trainings Completed:
  • Effects of Trauma (July, 2013)
  • Gender & Sexuality (July, 2013)
  • Understanding Oppression (August, 2013)
  • Legal Issues (August, 2013)
  • Safety Planning (September, 2013)
  • Stalking (September, 2013)

Supervisors: Constance Willis (Former Shelter Director) & Marquita Brown (Shelter Coordinator)

Part-Time Shelter Advocate (June 2012 - June 2013)

• Safe House Management Responsibilities:
  • Conducted intake and 2-day assessments of new clients
  • Conducted progress assessments with current residents
  • Entered, cleaned, and managed client and case-related data into the agency’s electronic database system (e.g., client and offender identities, client health and economic data, case narrative, client progress reports, etc.)
  • Provided current residents support with issues related to employment, educational, childcare, social services, and/or legal issues; conducted follow-up interviews with clients after completion of shelter program
  • Ensured the continual safety of current residents, staff, and volunteers
  • Provided current and past residents with safety planning support
• Crisis Line Management Responsibilities:
  • Conducted telephone assessments to assist callers in crisis situations and/or in need of community resources referrals
  • Assessed callers’ current housing, financial, and legal needs to determine the extent and nature of services needed
  • Entered, cleaned, and managed crisis line call-related data into the agency’s electronic database system (e.g., caller and offender identities [if available], crisis line call narrative, crisis line call history and timeline, etc.)
  • Advocated on behalf of callers to and coordinated with other community resources as needed
  • Coordinated with local law enforcement to ensure new shelter residents’ safe and efficient transport to the shelter
  • Provided safety planning support to callers

Volunteer Crisis Line Advocate (June 2011 - June 2012)

• Assisted shelter advocate with 24/7 crisis line and shelter maintenance
• Conducted intake and 2-day assessments of new clients
• Provided walk-in and telephone clients with safety planning information & community resources referrals

Supervisor: Robin Taylor, M.A.

Volunteer Legal Advocate (Sept. 2011 - June 2012)

• Conducted intake interviews with incoming clients
• Provided limited legal assistance with clients seeking temporary protective orders
• Advocated on behalf of clients to judges and defense lawyers
• Referred clients to other appropriate community agencies and resources
• Conducted intake and follow-up assessments of new clients
• Provided clients and callers with safety planning support and information

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