Podcasts, Conferences, and Articles

  • Changes to Sexual Identity Response Options in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey - March 2024

    For the 2021 YRBS, the CDC expanded how they capture sexual identity data. Our team explores this change and provides recommendations for consistent reporting in JAMA Pediatrics.

  • The Strengths and Limitations of Queer Data - July 2023

    Kevin Guyan, the author of "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action" and I discuss who gets to be in the room to tell our stories, who should be in the room, and how to highlight queer joy within data.

  • Native American Students & LGBTQ+ Identity - September 2023

    Journal of Adolescent Health

    Volume 73, Issue 6, December 2023

  • Findings From the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey - December 2022

    Published in Heath Education & Behavior, 22 Dec 2022

  • The Double-Edged Sword of Queer Data - June 2022

    My piece for the American Evaluation Association discussing the pros and cons of LGBTQ+ data collection.

  • Dikayo Data Podcast - July 2020

    My guest appearance on Dikayo Data's S2E2 of her #DataFemme podcast alongside Jeremy Mason and Kalan Dawson to discuss bias in machine learning models, reconciling faulty data, and queer representation in tech.

  • Data Mishaps Night - February 2021

    I spoke at the inaugural Data Mishaps Night on some of the classic ways data analysis can go wrong!

  • Using R to Land the Job: A Resume-Building Tutorial using Pagedown - May 2020

    My talk "Using R to Land the Job: A Resume-Building Tutorial using Pagedown", presented at SatRday Chicago 2020 virtual conference.