Self-motivated and result-driven professional eager to use my pragmatic, equity-focused, hardworking attributes to help fulfill organizational goals and objectives and motivate teams to do their best. Gifted with strong analytical and operational skills and the ability to balance vision with nuts-and-bolts planning, programming, and evaluation to drive tangible improvements.

Environmental & Natural Resource Economics; Energy Economics & Policy; Social Policy; Development Economics; Labor Economics & Policy; Applied Microeconomics; Health Economics & Policy; and Applied Econometrics

University of Montana

 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Katrina Mullan

                 Spring 2023      ECNS 560 Advanced Econometrics

Teaching Assistant to Dr. Jeffery Bookwalter

                   Spring 2023      ECNS 202 Principles of Macroeconomics

Teaching Assistant to Instructor Jakob Oetinger

Fall 2023           STAT 216 Introduction to Statistics

 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Amanda Dawsey

Spring 2023 ECNS 405 Game Theory

                              Teaching Assistant to Instructor Jonathon Knudson 

               Spring 2023      ECNS 201 Principles of Microeconomics

               Fall 2022           ECNS 202 Principles of Macroeconomics

                              Teaching Assistant to Dr. Douglas Dalenberg

               Fall 2022 ECNS 302 Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus

               Spring 2023      ECNS 512 Macroeconomics and Forecasting

University of Ghana

Teaching Assistant to Dr. Richard K. Ayisi and Dr. William Bekoe 

               Spring 2021      ECON 608 Public Finance II

ECON 472 Labor Economics II

ECON 474 Money and Banking II

ECON 312 Microeconomic Theory II

ECON 212 Element of Economics II ECON 216 Economy of Ghana II

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 

Research Assistant (Dr. Katrina Mullan)                                                                                             May 2023–Present      

Department of Economics, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

• Conducted data analysis and cleaning (in Stata) on tree planting programs’ impact on local livelihoods and communities in Uganda, access to grazing land, and energy use. Supervised onsite data collection in Uganda.

 Surveyor & Data Entry Analyst                                                                                                  July 2023–August 2024

The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research (ITRR)

• Summer: Conducted qualitative, on-site travel and recreation research. Collected field survey data at the Great Basin National Park (Nevada) and Lassen Volcanic National Park (California). Spoke with visitors about their park experience to gather socioeconomic characteristics.
• Fall: Analyze and decipher qualitative socioeconomic data to enter it into Excel to help estimate the economic contribution of nonresident travel to Montana’s economy.

 Research Associate                                                                                                                                      April–August 2022

London School of Economics, London, UK 

• Used Stata to conduct data analysis and cleaning for an energy and environmental economics project working with Tim Dobermann (PhD Candidate in Economics), Ignacio Banares-Sanchez (PhD Candidate in Economics), and Dr. Niclas Moneke (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oxford).