My name is Kendra Lodewick and I run Program and Policy Insight, a women-owned applied social policy research and evaluation firm dedicated to improving social and economic opportunities for individuals, families, and communities. I am based in Portland, OR, but work all over the country. My favorite part of this work is learning from and elevating the voices, experience, and knowledge of program participants and community partners. I am excited to be here!
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Hello! My name is Stephanie Solomon and I do domestic and intimate partner violence prevention for the Indiana state coalition. I work on a grant that is asking us to evaluate health equity in our state over a 5-year period and also assess programs like paid leave. I love qualitative data collection and the power of data to lift up a collective voice.
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Hi everyone!
I am Shavi (she/her). Currently, a third year PhD candidate in cell biology at the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!!), emphasizing science education research. I’m based out of Athens, GA. My mixed methods based doctoral work is particular to STEM persistence and data equity comes into major play at my work!
Very excited to be a part of this community!
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Kim Ryan
Maryland, Calvert County for work and Anne Arundel for my home
Local Health Department
Maryland DOH
I have always been fascinated with finding true equity data and especially health equity data. As of today, this work is critical and I am thankful I found this forum!
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Hello! I’m Sarah MacNaughton. I’m a Physical Activity Specialist with the City of Hamilton. I work in Public Health Services in Chronic Disease Prevention. My primary focus in outdoor and community-based physical activity.
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Hello from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon 
. I am a newly hired (but not new to assessment or OHSU) assistant director of Teaching, Learning and Assessment at a medium sized health sciences campus. Since meaning making is important to how we see ourselves, it seems equally important that we understand the history behind categorizations that box us in.
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Hi there @Alex_Shuford and @Sarah.MacNaughton and @Ryangoskins it’s so wonderful to have you join us.
It is exciting to me to see how much cross-sector collaboration takes place on the forum. I am also so excited to see fellow Canadians! I hope you find some useful connections for all three of you in the public health space. Let me know if you have any specific questions or topics you’d like to see We All Count engage in.