International

  • Kenya: urbanization and livelihoods; rural-urban migration
  • Germany: university research fellow, 1987-1991; fluent in spoken and written German
  • PhD in the sociology of international development
  • Program and project evaluation
  • Diversity and equity analysis
  • Grant proposal writing and editing

Current and recent projects

Co-Principal Investigator, “A Blessing or a Curse? Support Networks and the Digital Divide in Kenyan Low-Income Urban Settlements.” $5,500 from Dean’s Research Initiative, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2019-2021. Faculty Affiliate, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland-College Park.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science and Human Rights Program, project team for webinar series “Evaluation for Human Rights Organizations,” 2017-present.

A Visit to Community Development Projects in West Pokot County, Kenya, January 2017

A Glimpse of Life in Korogocho, Nairobi, September 2013