Education
Professional Preparation
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, Doctor of Public Administration, Public Administration Major/Public Sector Management Concentration, 2018-Present
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, Master of Research Administration, Research Administration Major
Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance Major
Dissertation Committee
- Dissertation Committee Chair – Dr. Carol Glen, Professor, Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University
- Dissertation Committee Member (Research Methods) – Dr. Daniel Baracskay, Professor, Department of Political Science, Valdosta State University
- Dissertation Committee Member – Dr. Naim Kapucu, Pegasus Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida
Valdosta State University – Completed Doctoral Coursework
- Administration and Government
- Logic of Inquiry in Public Administration (Research Methods Course)
- Research Methods in Public Administration (Research Methods Course)
- Financial Management for Public and Non-Governmental Organizations
- Democracy and Public Administration
- Public Administration and Community Based Organizations
- Program Evaluation (Research Methods Course)
- Culture of Formal Work Organization
- Managing Human Resources in Public and Non-Governmental Organizations
- Information and Data Management
- Innovation and Creative Problem Solving in the Public Sector
- Politics of Managing Urban Areas
- Planning and Implementing Electronic Government
- Comparative Public Policy
- Street Level Bureaucracy
- Capstone Seminar
University of Central Florida – Completed Master Coursework
- Introduction to Research Administration
- Grant and Contract Management
- Human Resource Management
- Contracting for Sponsored Programs
- Audits for Research Administration
- Research Integrity for Research Administrators
- Legal and Regulatory Framework
- Financial Management in Research Administration
- Leadership and Organization Models in Research Administration
- Strategic Planning and Management
- Public Program Evaluation Techniques
- Intellectual Property, Transfer, and Commercialization
Honors and Awards
- Riley Institute Diversity Fellow, Furman University, June 2017
- Inaugural Outstanding Research Administration Alumna of the Year, University of Central Florida, May 2014
- Financial Management Committee Service Recognition, NCURA (National Council of University Research Administrators), December 2013
- Master of Research Administration Inaugural Class of 2013 Recognition, University of Central Florida, August 2013
- Certificate in Research Administration, University of South Carolina, February 2011
CITI Training
- CITI Institutional Review Board (IRB) Basic – November 2019 – present
- CITI Responsible Conduct of Research in Social and Behavioral Science – April 2012 – present
- CITI Human Subjects Research in Social and Behavioral Science – January 2012 – present
Professional Development
Elsevier Researcher Academy
Funding
- How to Secure Funding – Early Career Researcher (ECR) Edition
- Funding Hacks for Researchers
- Successful Research Grant Applications – Getting It Right
- Discover How Metrics Can Boost Funding and Networking Opportunities
Research Data Management
- How to Conduct Evidence-Based Research
- How to Manage and Publish Your Research Data
- How Researchers Store, Share, and Use Data
- Creating a Good Research Data Management Plan
- How Researchers Benefit From Citing Data
Fundamentals of Publishing
- 10 Reasons to Get and Use an ORCID ID
- The Journal Publishing Cycle
- Making Sense of Science Stories
- The Origins of Scientific Publishing
- Gender Bias in Academic Publishing
Finding the Right Journal
- A Guide to Journal Citation Metrics
- How to Identify the Right Journal to Publish In
Open Science
- How to Leverage Open Hardware to Improve Your Research
- Publishing Open Access
Ethics
- Plagiarism – Decision Making and Dealing with Grey-Zones Across Academic Fields
Fundamentals of Peer Review
- Diversity of Peer Review
HRSA Division of Independent Review (DIR)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2017)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (March 2018)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2018)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (September 2018)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (January 2019)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (June 2019)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (February 2020)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (October 2020)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (November 2021)
- HRSA DIR Reviewer Training (May 2022)
LinkedIn Learning
- SPSS for Academic Research
- SPSS Statistics Essential Training
- Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies Part I
- Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies Part II
- R Statistics Essential Training
- Statistics Foundations: 2
- Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
- Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health
- Statistics Foundations: 3
- R Programming in Data Science: Setup and Start
- Learning R
- Data Science of Government and Political Science
- Big Data Foundations: Techniques and Concepts
- Data Science Foundations: Fundamentals
- Data Science Foundations: Data Mining
- Data Visualization in R with ggplot2
- Data Wrangling in R
- Learning the R Tidyverse
- Cleaning Bad Data in R
- Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines
- Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural Networks
- Big Data in the Age of AI
- Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Decision Trees
- Machine Learning and AI: Advanced Decision Trees
- Processing Text With R Essential Training
- Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Classification Modeling
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
- Introduction to Supervision
- Personnel Practices (18 Contact Hours)
- The Practical Coach
- Coaching: Interacting with Employees and Peers
University of South Carolina
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Overview
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Peer Review
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Overview
- Human Subjects and Animal Care