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Kieran Ferguson

Decatur,USA

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Undergraduate Researcher

Georgia Tech School of Economics
04.2024 - Current
  • Collaborating with Willie Belton to create a "social capital" country panel dataset.
  • Spearheading data collection for university database using Python (numpy, pandas, html webscrape modules) and combining 400mb worth of csv file datasets with SQL.

Economic Policy Intern

IIDS Nepal
05.2023 - 06.2023
  • Wrote Python code to clean survey dataset with 1,500 survey respondents and over 50 questions
  • Removed ~300 incomplete responses
  • Conducted analysis with STATA statistical modeling to identify trends within Nepali community in the US
  • Played role in identifying IT labor market trends for World Bank funded study on Nepali IT sector
  • Made policy recommendations for which 'higher-skilled', higher-paying skills should be prioritized in job training centers

Field Captain

Asian American Advocacy Fund
05.2022 - 10.2022
  • Managed team of field organizers to knock on doors and encourage Asian-American voters to vote for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in the 2021 Georgia Senate run-off election
  • Sourced campaign materials for non-english speaking voters in Chinese, Korean, and Hindi

Campaign Startup Founder

Win with Z
08.2021 - 11.2021
  • Consulted digital outreach strategy for Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu's launch plan that supported the campaign, raising $100K and signing up 1000+ volunteers in 2 days
  • Managed digital strategy for 3 state legislative candidates by planning and creating content for all social networks (Twitter, IG, FB) and collecting data on engagement for paid promotion posts

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics And International Affairs

Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Atlanta, USA
05-2025

Skills

  • Data collection and manipulation with Python (numpy, pandas, HTML webscraping)
  • Data visualization with Tableau and ArcGIS maps
  • Experience drafting press releases through internship for Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) in 2019
  • Voter targeting through NGP Van Political campaign Social Media management
  • Technical writing

Timeline

Undergraduate Researcher

Georgia Tech School of Economics
04.2024 - Current

Economic Policy Intern

IIDS Nepal
05.2023 - 06.2023

Field Captain

Asian American Advocacy Fund
05.2022 - 10.2022

Campaign Startup Founder

Win with Z
08.2021 - 11.2021

Bachelor of Science - Economics And International Affairs

Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Kieran Ferguson