As Policy and Research Analyst, State of Vermont Office of Racial Equity (February 2022 to October 2024)
The 2023 Language Access Report was used to successfully advocate for a $3 million legislative allocation to the Vermont Agency of Administration for improving language access services in the State of Vermont.
You can access more resources related to the Report, including a plain language summary (also drafted by me), translated versions of the summary in 15 languages including ASL, and a recorded webinar about the Report at https://racialequity.vermont.gov/language-access
Official testimony of the Office of Racial Equity regarding the bill referenced above: S.175, An act relating to requiring retail business to accept cash
Read the Office of Racial Equity testimony on the increased racial disparities in the criminal legal system likely to result from S.58 (2024), An act relating to increasing the penalties for subsequent offenses for trafficking and dispensing or sale of a regulated drug with death resulting
Official testimony of the Office of Racial Equity regarding Proposition 4: PR.4 Declaration of rights; government for the people; equality of rights
Read my personal essay “Parking my Privilege” on page 3 of the March 2023 issue of “The Idealist”, a quarterly newsletter for the IDEAL Vermont program
As Public Health Policy Consultant, Hartford Community Coalition
(January-February 2022)
I conducted background research on the potential public health impacts of retail cannabis stores. The Hartford Community Coalition used the resulting report to create educational materials to help community members make an informed decision on whether or not to allow retail cannabis stores to open in the town of Hartford and surrounding areas.
As Master of Public Health Candidate (Berkeley School of Public Health 2015-2016, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine 2018-2021)
The research I conducted as an intern with the New Hampshire Bureau of Infectious Disease Control was used to support a successful application for a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grant award from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). The funding was used to open the first syringe services programs in the state of New Hampshire following the passage of SB 234 in June 2017, which legalized syringe services in New Hampshire.