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Joycelyn Ovalle
Texas A&M University- George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, T.X.
Master of Public Service and Administration, Candidate, Public Policy Analysis
Concentration in State and Local Government
May 2016
May 2014
Coursework
Fundamentals of Public Service
Principles of State & Local
Government
Policy Analysis
Managing Projects
Statistical Methods in Practice
Economic Analysis
Econometrics
Urban Policy
Projects
Capstone Project for the Congressional Research Service
Fall 2015- present
Analyzed the volume, purpose, and impact of Dear Colleague letters, by coding 40,000+ letters, with a team of nine individuals.
Updated a Microsoft Access database with 279,000+ records used by all team members to perform qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Selected to present and deliver findings to the client at the Congressional Research Service.
Texas A&M Resilience and Cooperative Project
Spring 2015
Collected data on awareness and perceptions of disaster resiliency and climate change challenges faced by residents in the Sims Bayou
watershed in Houston.
Interviewed residents to inform scholars, City officials and civic leaders of local perceptions.
Translated survey protocol from English to Spanish to reach broader populations and produce a representative sample.
2011- 2014
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Bryan High School, Tutor
Provided weekly after school assistance to students
DC Central Kitchen, Summer Volunteer
Helped prepare meals for disadvantaged residents in the District of Columbia.
College Station Citizens University Program, Participant
Attended weekly meetings and interacted with City officials to learn about the Citys management.
PUBLICATIONS
Evans, H. K., Green, S. and Ovalle, J. (2014). Rockin' Robins: Do Congresswomen Rule the Roost of the Twittersphere? Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(7), 1305-1514.