About Me
What Sets Me Apart
I'm an EdD candidate (ABD) in Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. My dissertation research focuses on post-9/11 veterans affected by moral injury. My work helps people name what’s missing in their lives and what stands between them and where they want to be — grounded in CBPR, because people are the experts on their own lives. As a health needs assessment specialist, trained in ecological models of health behavior, my methods that extend well beyond veteran populations.
Areas of Expertise
EdD candidate (ABD), Health Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. My dissertation research focuses on post-9/11 veterans affected by moral injury — a population I’m deeply invested in serving. My work helps people name what’s missing in their lives and what stands between them and where they want to be — grounded in CBPR, because people are the experts on their own lives.
How I Work
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Literature Review & Landscape Scan
Grounding the study in what’s known.
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Instrument Design & Expert Panel Validation
Built and vetted by experts.
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Pilot Testing
Proven with real participants before scaling.
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Ground-Up Trust-Building
Direct outreach where trust can’t be assumed.
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Person-Centered Co-Exploration
People name their own needs, in their own words.
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Cross-Domain Synthesis
Mapped across all five domains of a person’s life.
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Stakeholder Communication & Advocacy
Presenting findings clearly, and advocating for what they show is needed.
What I Bring
Methodology, rigor, and relationships that move health equity forward. l
Community trust, not just data
Communities lead; I bring the methodology.
Outcomes, not just outputs
What actually changes, and for whom.
Literature-grounded, not guesswork
Every study starts with rigorous review.
CDC/WHO-standard evaluation
Assessing real impact, not just engagement.
Relational, not just technical
The combination that actually moves health equity forward.
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Veteran & Moral Injury Health
Grounded in trauma-informed methodology, current doctoral research, and direct subject matter expertise in moral injury. Includes grant-partner relationship management, review of partner impact reports, and ongoing programmatic research to keep veteran-serving investments responsive to what veterans say they need.
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Program Design, Evaluation & Nonprofit Consulting
From front-end community diagnostics through impact measurement, using CBPR and RE-AIM-aligned frameworks to assess whether community and sport-access programs produce real behavioral outcomes, not just reach.
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Qualitative Research Design
Literature review and landscape scanning, instrument design and expert panel validation, and pilot testing — building studies that hold up to scrutiny before they scale.
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Qualitative Interviewing
Ground-up outreach, interview facilitation, and person-centered co-exploration — coded and synthesized into findings that hold up alongside quantitative data.
Speaking for people without listening to what they need first isn’t research, it’s assumption.
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