- 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