Education

Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Political Science

Summa Cum Laude

Concentration: International Relations and Comparative Government

Minor: Business Analytics

Honors Society: Pi Sigma Alpha - National Political Science Honors Society

Final GPA: 4.0

Certifications and Badges

Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) certification in data science:

  • Earned upon completion of the minor in business analytics through the ESU partnership with SAS.

  • Shown proficiency in:

    • SAS programming language

    • The fundamentals of data management, preparation, and analysis, as well as data mining and forecasting

    • Manipulating and gaining insights from big data with various SAS and open-source tools and using complex machine-learning models to make business recommendations

Computer Science Managing Large Data Sets Badge:

  • Demonstrated the ability to import, manage, analyze, and present large data sets in Microsoft Excel.

  • This includes and not limited to:

    • Sorting, filtering, aggregating, and visualizing data

    • Relating data tables, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, and expectations

    • Significance testing on samples, correlation, regression, analysis of variance, etc.

Academic Awards

  • ESU Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2023)

    • Highest GPA of any graduating Athlete

  • Dean’s List (All Semesters)

  • NCAA Honor Roll

  • PSAC Scholar-Athlete

My Academic Journey

After graduating high school in 2019, I first attended the University of Akron, where I studied statistics and data science. My freshman year was cut short due to COVID-19, and I finished my first year feeling unsure of where I was and what I was studying. However, I chose to stay at Akron for another year and adjusted to the new world of distance learning and Zoom classes. After two years of not feeling challenged, I decided to leave my comfort zone and transfer to another university. At East Stroudsburg University, I found a Political Science Department of incredibly passionate professors and courses that challenged my analytical mindset. I focused my studies on international relations and found my love for comparative policy analysis. The coursework focused on many world regions, including Europe, Eastern Asia, and the Middle East. Additionally, I continued my studies in analytics at the School of Business, where I earned a certificate in data science with Statistical Analysis Software (SAS) and a badge in managing large data sets in Excel through the computer science department. My goal is to bring my love for data to the world of policy analysis.