Jasmin Norford

Suwanee, GA adl5ls@r.postjobfree.com 678-***-****

EDUCATION

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN August 2017-May 2021

Bachelor of Arts, English and Philosophy

Concentration: Specialized Critical Studies Program in African American and Diaspora Literary Studies

Minor: Brazilian Studies

GPA: 3.799/4.00

HONORS

Ingram Scholarship Program August 2017-May 2021 Ingram Scholar

-The Ingram Scholarship is a full-tuition merit scholarship awarded to the top 1% of applicants for academic excellence, community service, and a passion for community development

-Collaborated during weekly workshops in philanthropy, social enterprise, non-profit management etc. -Accomplished 16-20 hours of community service per month with orgs like the Nashville International Center for Empowerment etc.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:

Statistical Methods in Public Policy, Ethnographic/Sociocultural Field Methods, Ingram Summer project grant-writing

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Latin American Public Opinion Project, Nashville, TN January 2020- May 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant and Undergraduate fellow -Facilitates quality control for America’s Barometer Survey campaigns through memos, auditing survey questions, translation etc. -Assisted with quality control on public opinion surveys for Ecuador, Peru and Haiti etc. monitoring COVID-19 measures. -Completing fellowship program, using STATA and 2019 opinion data to author Insight Publication on public sentiments about social assistance programs and immigration in Brazil. Ingram Scholarship Program Summer Grant Project, Duque de Caxias, Brazil May 2019-July 2019 Research Assistant -Organized service-based research project and authored a 40 page grant proposal to assess project impact and goals - Awarded $5000 grant funding 8 weeks with the Afrodiáspora Research Center at the State University of Rio de Janeiro -Translated and edited student research thesis projects in preparation for the WLE Education Conference in 2019 University of Delaware Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, Delaware May 2020-August 2020 Undergraduate Fellow -Authored “Student Self-concept Association to Executive Functioning Skills(EF)…” a secondary longitudinal analysis of the ECLS national childhood dataset -Assisted graduate research team at The Math and Learning Sciences Laboratory with early childhood fractions assessment study -Competed a 9-week fellowship program on graduate level social research, concentrating in longitudinal analysis of early educational data COMMUNITY AND CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT Medley Of Students And Ideas Connecting (MOSAIC) Executive board January 2018-May 2021 Co-President -Coordinated a yearly 3 day multicultural recruitment event for prospective students with events like an showcase of opportunities in the arts, financial aid seminars, and informational sessions on events specific to populations of color -Lead Executive board planning monthly programs for 1st generation, multicultural and minority students English Language Center January 2020-May 2021 Consultant -Edited, tutored, and mentored university students who are in need of support in language proficiency skills and English practice -Consulted students on essays, applications, verbal presentations, conversational skills etc. through 50 min. weekly sessions Hands On Nashville January 2021-May 2021 Community Impact Strategies Intern -Administering a Community Impact assessment helping HON to analyze their non-profit and community partnerships in Nashville -Creating a plan for improving the organization’s relationships with community partners and for meeting the needs of local non-profits -Coordinating a comprehensive report of community stakeholders (i.e. priority neighborhoods, community organizations, partners) ACADEMIC WRITING AND TECHNICAL SKILLS -Intermediate Proficiency in Portuguese -Proficiency in R, MAXQDA, STATA and Excel programming for social science data analysis -Presenter at Auburn University sponsored Southeastern Liberal Arts Research Conference (SELARC) April 2018 and 2019 -Vanderbilt University Undergraduate Morgan Essay Award Second Place Winner April 2020 -Undergraduate presenter at International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP) 2020 Conference March 2020