Academic Experience

Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Heinz College,  Carnegie Mellon University

5/2009 - 5/2010

My final project was titled "Fighting Hunger While Positively Impacting the Regional Food System."  This was a team project focused on developing a plan to implement an EBT (food stamps) acceptance system into the Pittsburgh farmers' markets.

Coursework:

  • Applied Econometrics I
  • Brazil Today
  • Empirical Methods of Public Policy and Management
  • Financial Analysis
  • Foreign Policy Issues
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Global Health Policy
  • Globalization
  • Intermediate Economic Analysis
  • Management Science I & II
  • Negotiation
  • Organizational Management
  • Policy & Politics: An International Perspective
  • Population & Policy
  • Program Evaluation
  • Strategic Presentation Skills
  • Strategic Writing Skills
  • Systems Synthesis

Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and History from The College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Pittsburgh

8/2000 - 5/2004

Coursework:

  • Alexander and the Hellenistic Age
  • Algebra
  • Approaches to Anti-Semitism
  • Basics of Space Flight
  • Beginning Ancient Greek 1
  • Beginning Ancient Greek 2
  • Bible as Literature
  • Business Calculus
  • Classical Mythology and Literature
  • Confucianism: Basic Texts
  • Dualism in the Ancient World
  • Elementary French 1
  • Elementary French 2
  • Elementary Russian 1
  • General Writing
  • Greek History
  • Introduction to Art
  • Introduction to Macroeconomic Theory
  • Introduction to Microeconomic Theory
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Introduction to Shakespeare
  • Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Modern France 1780-1880
  • Mysticism: East and East
  • Origins of Christianity
  • Physics and Science Fiction
  • Political Philosophy
  • Roman History
  • Russia and the West
  • Temple, Icon, and Deity in India
  • United States 1865 - Present
  • University Orientation
  • Varieties of Early Christianity
  • Western Civilization 2
  • World Film
  • Writing Seminar for History majors

Attended the Berkeley Greek Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley

6/2003 - 8/2003      


Certified to teach English as a second language from the Council for Distance TESOL Education - ACTDEC

1/2008 - 6/2008