Welcome to my portfolio!
Welcome to my ePortfolio page! I’m Manda, a sophomore Honors Fellow, Z Fellow, and US Presidential Scholar at the University of Arkansas studying economics & math. I’m passionate about behavioral economics, education access, and social innovation. I love digging deeper into data to understand user needs and empower people to do what they love and do it well.
I’m proficient in R, Python, Matlab, and STATA to uncover insights and tease out causality between trends. I also have a few years of education access experience, both at home in AR and leading an organization of over 120k students. I synthesize the content and analytical skills I’ve learned from these experiences to cofound Mission: Mentor, where I’m building a free virtual college counselor for high school students. Through this role, I’ve learned to write content for social media, email communication, and product copy. I analyze and iterate on my work through data insights from A/B tests for both marketing campaigns and product testing utilizing Mixpanel, Hubspot, and Google Analytics. Message me and connect to see how we can make an impact!
My Skillset
My skills have been built up over years of professional work experience as well as research and simple observation. I have a great balance between industry-specific skills and soft skills, which means I have what it takes to do brilliant work and make a contribution to any team. If you’re interested in getting to know more about me, and the skills I possess, get in touch. I’d love to discuss with you all the tools, skills and more I can put to use for you.
Product Management
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From cofounding a startup in the Harvard iLab to University of Arkansas Design teams, I've learned to turn user insights into tangible products.
Content & Curriculum Development
Everything from newsletters, workshops, templates, product copy, Instagram posts, pitch decks, and Tiktoks -- with a special focus on secondary education :)
Economic Analytics
Utilizing Python, R, STATA, and MATLAB to clean, merge, dissect, and analyze data. Currently building supervised ML text classification algorithms for the UArk Terrorism Research Center.
