About

I am an Assistant Professor and the Director of Statistics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Slippery Rock University. I am also a Service-Learning Associate with the Office for Community-Engaged Education at SRU. I am actively researching the effect of community engagement on elementary statistics learning. I specialize in survey methods for hard-to-interview populations in general, casualty estimation, and record linkage.

Experience

Board of Directors Member
Pittsburgh Interfaith Evolution Inc.

Research Interests

Education Environment Homelessness Social Justice

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Groups

  • Slippery Rock University

  • Office for Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL)

  • The Macoskey Center for Sustainability Education and Research

  • The Pulse

  • GivePulse Community

  • Slippery Rock Community Library

  • Academic Community-Engaged Learning Courses

  • Community Org. Training Portal

  • Butler SUCCEED

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  • Recognized Student Organizations

  • Classes

    Impacts

    The Elf Project
    The Elf Project
    Volunteer Day #3_November 3rd, 2022
    The Elf Project- December Drop-off

    Students in the department and I went shopping; the total trip took about 2.5 hours. The students had so much fun that one of them wanted to do a third child! I had to explain we had only collected enough money from the faculty for two.

    Donated goods on 12/03/2021

    This Impact is private

    This Impact is private

    Summer 2021 Session
    Slippery Rock University

    I met with 124 students for about 45 minutes per student to assist them with their portion of our data analysis based on the survey we administered for the Slippery Rock Community Library. The students each will prepare a one-minute voiceover Powerpoint presentation about their analysis; I will then be combining these analyses into a single mp4/movie to be viewed by our community partner.

    As always, it is exhausting but rewarding to meet with each student individually. We determined that the library needs to communicate more widely about its source of funding, its open times and days, and its available resources, especially internet-based resources. We found significant differences between some populations (geography-based, household-composition-based, and tenure-in-area-based) as well. It feels good to have gotten some significant feedback for the library and to be able to make some policy suggestions!

    Gave 80.00 hours between 04/16/2021 and 04/23/2021 with Slippery Rock Community Library, Elementary Statistics*, Office for Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL)
    Faculty RockServe Training 2