# Angela The > civic tech @ Skylight Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/angelathe Master's graduate in computer science and public policy at the University of Chicago. Enthusiastic about the intersection of public-interest tech, social policy, and civic engagement. Hopeful that inclusive and thoughtful technology can help make government services and benefits more accessible to everyone. In my free time, I enjoy cooking, freelance photography, hiking, traveling, and playing chamber music with friends. I hope to continue filling my life with books and music from around the world, the curious beginnings of new friendships, and, as always, more questions. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Skylight Jan 2024 – Present Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. https://skylight.digital/ ### Associate Software Engineer @ Skylight Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Digital Inclusion & Technology Advisor, Software Engineering @ City of San José Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Back-End Software Engineering Fellow @ City of San José Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Civic Innovation Corps Fellow @ Coding it Forward Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Technical Research Assistant II @ MDRC Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area Families with Children Policy Area • Co-lead data programming for projects that evaluate the impacts of community-based programs in supporting low-income families and the relationships with their children • Build and execute programs in SAS and R that perform various tasks such as quality checking, data cleaning and processing, measure creation, data imputation, impact and implementation analysis, and data visualization • Lead statistical analysis operations such as significance testing, factor analysis, subgroup analysis of intervention effects, growth curve modeling, sensitivity analyses, robustness checks, and multiple hypothesis adjustments • End-to-end experience with social program impact evaluations through project landscaping, recruitment, data collection, data cleaning & analysis, data visualization, and report coordination Activities: • Women of Color in Tech Workgroup Co-Lead; Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advocacy Council Member (Equity Work Group liaison); Criminal Justice Affinity Group Planning Committee member Current Projects: • Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) Evaluation • Child First • The Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions (VIQI) Project: Examining the Quality-Child Outcomes Relationship in Child Care and Early Education ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Vanderbilt University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Nashville Area, TN The Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society (RIPS) Lab is a social science research lab in the Vanderbilt University Political Science Department. • Design survey coding protocols towards larger public-opinion research projects on topics such as mandatory sexual harassment training in the #MeToo movement and anti-obesity measures in New York City • Provide technical research assistance for 2018 APSA Conference Paper, “Modern Sexism in Modern Times: Public Opinion in the #MeToo Era” by Dr. Allison Archer and Dr. Cindy Kam • Administrate surveys to assist faculty in conducting public opinion research focused on racial attitudes ### Richard J. Riordan Summer Research Intern @ Public Policy Institute of California Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area “Exploring Crime Data in California” | Dr. Magnus Lofstrom and Brandon Martin • Wrangle geocoded crime data and data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to better understand the socio-economic factors that drive racial disparities in concentrated crime areas • Utilize R for data cleaning and data wrangling tasks, exploratory data analysis, and data visualization applications (ie. interactive, longitudinal, geospatial) ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Mass Incarceration Lab for Undergraduates (Vanderbilt University) Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Nashville Area, TN Vanderbilt Political Science Department | Dr. Allison Anoll • Selected to be one of twelve undergraduate researchers to participate in the lab, producing an original group paper researching the relationship between perceptions of crime, actual crime, and external political efficacy in the unique and narrower context of socio-geographic factors • Using R to manipulate and analyze FBI UCR Crime Data (2015) merged with a national dataset of over 15,000 respondents • Presented poster presentation for group working paper, “Neighborhoods, Crime, and Perceived Crime: The Power of Perceptions in Estimating Efficacy” at the 2018 Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference ### Policy Research Assistant @ Project Return (Nashville) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Nashville Area, TN • Implemented research guides on numerous criminal justice topics that were integrated into the new Family CIRCLE Program and was instrumental in the success of several federal grant applications • Research topics include solitary confinement, risk assessment programs, Fair Chance Act, transitional and affordable housing, lack of programming in prisons, familial income and incarceration, violence in prison, sector-based partnerships, sex offender registry and laws in Tennessee, and state re-entry programs • Maintain quality assurance reports on job placement services and monthly recidivism checks • Assist in participant services through mock interviews, job lead support, direct aid, and prison in-reach ### Intern @ Chicago Justice Project Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 • Created an Excel database of all civil litigation data and police misconduct settlements against the Chicago Police Department from 2007-2016 • Coded Chicago-based articles and media sources by issues towards a larger crime-reporting accountability project ## Education ### M.S. Computational Analysis and Public Policy Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago ### Bachelor's degree in Public Policy Studies (Criminal Justice Track), Violin Musical Arts Vanderbilt University ### High School Diploma Saint Francis High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angelathe - Portfolio: https://www.angelathe.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/angelathe JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/angelathe/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13