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Short-term graduate research assistant position with the Public Policy Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the university’s center for applied social science research, technical assistance, and public service based in the College of Arts and Sciences and affiliated with its Department of Public Policy. I have worked on numerous research projects: public housing self-sufficiency, public safety, public health, public education, civic infrastructure, regional economic development, employment, offshore wind (legislative analysis, supply chain analysis, power bids, local>>global), and legal aid. My duties included: literature review and analysis; composition for internal and external reports, newsletter, and blog; survey design, development, and analysis; field survey; data tabulation and analysis; SPSS survey programming; acquire and prepare content for UMass Public Policy Center Offshore Wind Economics Project.
In 20 years, I held numerous positions in the newsroom, the last six as editorial page editor. In that role, I studied a broad range of topics of interest to the public in Southeastern Massachusetts, and presented opinions for public consumption on a daily basis. As the manager of the editorial board - which included community members - I routinely hosted key visitors in the process of exploring these topics of interest. In six years, you may imagine both the broad range of topics covered, from annual rituals such as holidays and school openings, to drumbeat politics, vexatious social issues, intimate portraits, and regional economics. 20+% of my time was spent out of the office, in the community.
I served in the USMCR Public Affairs Office as a press information man, E-5, sergeant. Activated for Operation Desert Storm to North Carolina and Norway; and in the USAR Civil Affairs as a civil affairs sergeant, E-5, serving in U.S., Germany, Albania, and Italy.