It’s all about the stories we tell
I am a driven and passionate data analyst that prides myself in creative thinking and my ability to see through the cracks and uncover the full story. After my time at CUNY Baruch College, I began working as a data analyst in 2017 for a large national non-profit organization named Best Friends Animal Society. In the time since, I have honed my skills and went from analyzing spreadsheets sent down-stream to me from Best Friends Animal Society’s data enterprise team to developing my own databases and performing full stack analysis for research papers and other projects.
I’ve always seen myself as a bit of a statistical outlier. I was born in England, and I’m an immigrant to this country. I naturalized only a few years ago and still panic a little when I don’t see my green card in my wallet. My mother herself was an immigrant in England, having emigrated from Cyprus as young girl. If growing up with immigrant parents in a foreign country wasn’t unique enough, we also moved around the country a lot when I was young. I can’t think of anywhere that feels truly like home to me, and I felt alone for a lot of my life thinking that way.
In the years spent working and going to college in New York City, thousands of miles from my family, I met countless people with similar situations. Some fellow students were studying abroad and their whole family lived 8+ time zones away. I had several colleagues that had uprooted their whole lives to move to New York from places like Los Angeles. It dawned on me quickly how foolish it would be to believe that everything can fit neatly into simple categories. Understanding how different we all are and appreciating the diversity that makes up this country translates directly to how I look at understanding data. The full story, however many stories there might be in the data, requires us to be open minded and curious.
