About Me

Metopio is a platform for searching, visualizing, and analyzing geographic data. It uses data from hundreds of public and private sources to generate insights about the links between social determinants and health outcomes across the country. I built the initial platform from scratch and co-founded the company.

As the System Director of Advocacy Labs at Presence Health and then AMITA Health, nonprofit health systems based in Chicago, I helped design and evaluate programs that proactively address the social determinants of health. I built and managed software tools to analyze, visualize, and communicate our impact on patients and community residents, and supported our Advocacy team in making our case to legislators in Springfield and DC.

As a Master in Public Policy student at The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, I studied health policy and program evaluation, with a special focus on data analysis in public policy. Through the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy I worked on an interdisciplinary case study for a large health provider in Chicago. As a Research Assistant for Brett Goldstein, the former CIO of the City of Chicago, I was the product manager for Plenario, an early municipal data aggregator, and refined an algorithm for smart spatial clustering.

At The Brooklyn Quarterly, I served as a Senior Editor since our founding in 2012, playing a role in our editorial process and managing our web presence. I also wrote pieces for the magazine from time to time.

As an Innovation Fellow intern at the Chicago Department of Public Health, I created an interactive visualization of social determinants in Chicago’s communities. I also helped prepare two datasets for release on Chicago’s open data portal and assisted in the reporting of results from a large telephone survey of health behaviors.

At the Chicago Policy Review, I served as the Senior Editor for Health and then as the first ever Director of Visual Media, in which capacity I created and led perhaps the first data visualization team of any student-run policy journal in the country and represented us at national conferences. I also published two articles, two interviews, and one infographic in the journal, including early coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

As a founding executive board member of the Data in Public Policy student group, I worked to advance the culture of data science at the Harris School by leading workshops on R, SQL, and data visualization. Under my leadership, DIPP members partnered with a number of local community organizations and non-profits to help them with data analysis. My work for DIPP included creating the Harris Insider course evaluation website.

At Columbia University, I earned 9 credits toward a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Biotechnology, taking classes in computational genomics, applied statistical methods, and cell biology.

At First Manhattan Consulting Group (FMCG), I conducted statistical modeling and data processing on behalf of retail banking clients, using multivariable regression, customer segmentation, and sophisticated algorithms to improve the results of marketing campaigns. While there, I learned R and C# on my own initiative and used them to improve FMCG’s intellectual property.

As the second-in-command at Network 20/20, a small foreign policy nonprofit in New York, I managed day-to-day business operations, organized and managed more than 20 events with high-profile speakers, and served as the primary contact for more than 500 members and donors and United Nations diplomatic staff. I also built a new database and website to improve the organization’s ability to stay in touch with its constituents.

At Princeton University, I studied Classics and completed a senior thesis on the use of classical allusion and influence in the poetry of Keats and Shelley. I also studied organic chemistry, Arabic, and international relations.