Since 2010, work that carries the tools of data science and international economics beyond the university — from post-earthquake Haïti to a data-science programme for young women across francophone Africa.
Founding president of an NGO started in 2011, after a mission in Haïti for the Inter-American Development Bank following the terrible 2010 earthquake. The IDB and the Haïtian government were building a new plan for education; back in the US that summer, that work became edhaiti.org.
edhaiti.org →A francophone initiative with researcher Bernice Bancole: a two-year programme targeting 200 young women in Bénin and beyond, solving real problems with R and other languages — data science for humanity.
sdafrique.org →Created at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic to keep teaching going online for students without other options.
A companion project supporting digital-humanities work through the same period.