Disaster Policy Analyst

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Taylor Hynes

H O M E : *** Eastern Parkway C O N T A C T : +1-702-***-****

Brooklyn, NY 11213 ******.*.*****@*****.***

E D U C A T I O N :

**** – 2020 MSc in Risk, Disaster and Resilience

University College London

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

Masters Dissertation: Identity After the Flood: Political Discourses on Citizenship and Disaster in Assam, India

Primary Course Focuses: Gender, conflict and disaster; climate change, conflict and migration; risk and security assessment and analysis

2010 – 2013 BA in Interdisciplinary Studies – Social Science Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Cumulative GPA – 3.58

Capstone paper title: Political Inclusion Through Technology and Liquid Democracy R E S E A R C H E X P E R I E N C E :

Feb 2020 – Research Assistant, IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster Jul 2020

Independently researched and wrote two literature reviews: one on women’s political participation and another on gendered dimensions of the disaster-conflict continuum, which included summaries on cascading disaster, disaster methodology, and climate migration research W O R K H I S T O R Y :

2015 – 2019 Data Analyst

Translation

• Conducted demographic research and social discourse analysis to develop creative and strategic recommendations for both national and local media campaigns

• Managed multiple ongoing projects with deliverables on different timescales

• Leveraged open source data, proprietary data, and live news sources

• Distilled data into comprehensible recommendations through research reports and data visualizations to lead internal strategy teams, external clients, and other non-experts

• Point person for performance measurement, developing KPIs, and analysis on multiple accounts

• Provided research for a successful pro-bono campaign to restore voting rights to felons in Florida 2014 Journalism Intern

United Nations

• Interviewed and researched UN staff and crafted narrative copy for the official UN website

• Summarized Security Council and General Assembly meetings

• Liaised with dozens of national and international journalists during the General Assembly 2 P a g e

A D D I T I O N A L S K I L L S :

• Solid experience with both quantitative and qualitative research tools including R, Excel, NVivo, and ArcGIS

• Proven ability to find creative approaches to information and data gathering

• Experience working in post-disaster recovery in Puerto Rico six months after Hurricane Maria

• Native proficiency in English and basic proficiency in French P U B L I C A T I O N S :

Oct 2020 Global Observatory

Title: Dissolving Interagency Silos: The WPS Agenda and the Disaster-Conflict Continuum R E F E R E N C E S:

Prof Peter Sammonds Dr Punam Yadav

Director Co-Director

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster University College London University College London Tel: +440********** Tel: +447*********

Email: *.********@***.**.** E-mail: *.*****@***.**.** Craig Stauber

Director of Analytics & Data Strategy/

Former Supervisor

Unilever U-Studio

Tel: +1-516-***-****

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