Francesca Vescia

Experience

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  County of San Mateo

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Learning and Outreach Intern

  • Educated patrons about library resources through community outreach• Facilitated library enrichment activities• Highlight: Helped plan and lead a weekly musical story time for toddlers

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  Macalester College

  Feb 2016 - May 2017

  • Cared for collections: accessions, metadata, maintenance, etc.• Conducted collections-based research for faulty, alumni, student organizations, et al. • Identified data and key claims from academic articles for use in literature review

  • Archives Specialist (Promoted from Archives Aide)

    Sept 2014 - May 2017

  • Research Assistant to Laura Backstrom

    Feb 2016 - May 2016
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  Peninsula Young Writers

  Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

  Office Assistant

  • Provided operational support for a multi-session youth writing camp• Maintained camper records and Google and MailChimp mailing lists

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  County of San Mateo

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Lead Outreach Intern

  • Managed a team of five interns across two library branches • Educated patrons about library resources through community outreach• Facilitated library enrichment activities

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  Stanford University

  Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  Program Coordinator | Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

  Provided administrative support for research, education, and policy analysis:• Scheduled Center events and meetings, wrote meeting minutes • Made orders and reservations, processed expenses, and ran financial reports• Designed and implemented a summer internship for two high school students • Reviewed fellowship applications for the California Opportunity Study• Maintained mailing lists for Pathways magazine

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  Cornell University

  Aug 2019 - Jun 2021

  Research and Program Assistant | Policy Analysis and Management

  • Helped analyze and communicate impacts of policies and programs for kids and families• Provided administrative and communications support Illustrative deliverables:• Data visualizations for two New York State Department of Health needs assessments• Briefs summarizing Tompkins County Family Treatment Court participant interview themes• A database of evidence-based programs for families affected by substance misuse• A practitioner guide to understanding and identifying evidence-based programsAffiliations: • Department of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology• Cornell Project 2Gen at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational ResearchFaculty supported: Dean Rachel Dunifon, Professor Laura Tach, Professor Maria FitzpatrickContinuing education: The Politics of Public Policy (GOV 3032, 4 credits) Show less

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2022

  Research Coordinator | Stanford Reach Lab

  Supported formative research on adolescent and young adult substance use and evaluation of youth substance use interventions:• Reviewed and summarized relevant literature• Built, tested, and deployed surveys• Analyzed survey data• Analyzed focus group data

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  Chicago Policy Review

  Jul 2022 - May 2023

  • Director of Data Visualization

    Jan 2023 - May 2023

  • Data Visualization Specialist

    Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
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  Urban Institute

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Research Programming Intern | Office of Technology & Data Science

  Provided technical support for economic and social policy research:• Created technical resources for 200+ Qualtrics survey platform users• Proposed and implemented updates to the Reproducibility at Urban websiteIllustrative deliverables:• Written and video guides and code templates for working with Qualtrics and the Qualtrics API• A reproducible survey response tracking dashboard

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  University of Chicago, Research Computing Center

  Oct 2023 - now

  Graduate Assistant

  Improve and expand RCC documentation on high-performance research computing