Resume

Mallory K. Roman

Durham, North Carolina | Mallory@socialpsyq.com

Summary

Creative researcher and lab/people manager with 16 years of experience designing, managing, conducting, analyzing, and communicating about behavioral research and leading research teams

Skills and Expertise

General

Research methods, literature reviews, IRB reviews, experimental design, advanced randomization and sampling techniques, primary and secondary research
Microsoft Office Suite, Google Drive apps, MailChimp, Qualtrics, Photoshop, NGP VAN/VoteBuilder

Statistical

ANOVA/ANCOVA, MANOVA/MANCOVA, regression, principal components analysis, canonical correlation analysis, correspondence analysis, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, path analysis, cluster analysis, meta-analysis
Programs: SPSS, SAS, JMP, STATA
Languages: Basic SQL, beginner R

Work Experience

Research Director April 2023-March 2024 Galvanize Action/Galvanize USA

Responsible for running day to day operations of the research program at Galvanize USA (501(c)(3)) and Galvanize Action (501(c)(4)). Supervised senior research team members and managed project design, administration, analysis, and communication about results.

Informed overall research strategy with organizational priorities and strategic plans
Worked with senior research staff to develop 2024 research plan and projected budget
Worked with vendors and consultants alongside senior staff to ensure project success for 5 RCTs, 3 qualitative projects, and 2 surveys, as well as dozens of message and ad tests
Directly supervised and advised 2 senior research staff members in study planning, methodology, administration, analysis, and reporting
Ensured organizational communication to disseminate findings
Helped to problem solve data collection, data cleaning/coding, and analysis setbacks
Helped to write messages to test, sense-make around research findings, and translate research findings to inform creative (ads, content meant for community members)

Director of Research February 2022-March 2022 Associate Director of Research August 2018-February 2022 Sister District Action Network

Helped build and oversee productive research program focused on primary research to evaluate tactics for political voter/volunteer outreach and fundraising methods with a secondary focus on descriptive research to investigate state legislative electoral trends.

Designed, conducted, analyzed, reported on, and managed the entire research lifecycle for 40+ quantitative and qualitative studies in the form of experiments, pseudo-experiments, surveys, A/B testing, secondary research, and other mixed-methods research
Originated and managed internal and external research communications, literature reviews, research plans, study data, experiment logs, inferential and descriptive analyses, and research reports
Generated actionable campaign insights based on experimental interventions with voters
Engaged in research storytelling that connects individual-level interventions to large-scale outcomes in an attempt to inform voter outreach strategies
organizational presence, created organizational value, and engaged in reputation-building
Amplified findings and provided thought leadership via invited talks, interviews, conference panels, blogs, social media content, and op-eds in national news media
Presented findings to funders, donors, stakeholders, volunteers, and public audiences
Led 5 innovative research projects honored with industry research awards for excellence
Oversaw research activities responsible for approximately $650,000 in organizational grant funding from 13 grants over 4.5 years
Worked internally with staff members of the PAC to incorporate evidence-based practices from internal research into organizing recommendations
Participated in donor meetings, grant applications, and grant reporting
Managed all research collaborations, interns, contract employees, 55+ volunteer research assistants, and a volunteer data team of 300+

Campaign Manager February 2018-November 2018 Laci LeBlanc for Catawba County Commissioner

Summer Instructor May 2016-July 2018 Duke University, Dept of Psychology and Neuroscience, Intro Psychology and Consumer Psychology