Deja Jackson
I am passionate about leveraging technology and public policy to achieve positive change. I am constantly seeking opportunities to combine these two interests.
Socialization
Publications
Presentations I gave and other publications I was involved in the creation of.
Presentation - Peer2Power Overview
Report - Student Government Budget Audit Report
Blog Post - From Policy to Product: Enabling One Health Through Technology
Presentation - Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios GOVT 275 Experimental Design Overview
Presentation - AIAN Pandemic Response GOVT 101 Policy Proposal
Creations
My previous work.
Tanzania Parliamentary Elections
Using Python to extract constituency-level parliamentary election results from government PDFs.
Peer2Power
An iOS app I wrote in SwiftUI for an undergraduate research project. The app facilitated a randomized control trial that sought to evaluate the effectiveness of friend to friend recruitment of political campaign volunteers.
GOVT 275 Legislative Effectiveness Project
An interactive map I created for my GOVT 275 final project on town halls and the legislative effectiveness of members of Congress.
Lafayette Digital Repository Metadata Dictionary & Creation Guidelines
Breadnbutter
A hypothetical pet adoption system I developed with my team as our Software Engineering (CS 205) class project. I was responsible for writing the system's SQL queries.
Eyedentify
An object recognition app I developed with two classmates during the Def Hacks Seattle hackathon.
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Education
Lafayette College
Dean’s List Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023 semesters. Accepted into the EXCEL Scholars program after a faculty nomination for my extracurricular research.
Experience
Database Support Specialist
Research Fellow
Conducting research on the impact of media on election outcomes. Wrote a Python script to extract Tanzanian parliamentary election results from a government-provided PDF.
Research Assistant
Analyzed survey data collected from field research using Stata. Built a dashboard in Tableau to visualize the survey data. Made corrections to survey data entered by enumerators based on feedback from the QC team. Conducted research to assess whether an NGO’s problem statement was relevant to their initiative.
Research Assistant
Developed the iOS app Peer2Power to facilitate a randomized control trial evaluating the impact friend-to-friend recruiting has on willingness to volunteer for political campaigns. I wrote the app in SwiftUI while another student wrote a web version of the app. The app shipped on the App Store. Preliminary analysis suggested we achieved a statistically significant result.
Strategy Intern
Conducted desk research on One Health, a public health approach that emphasizes the intersection between human, animal, and environmental health to identify opportunities available to provide services. My findings were featured in a company blog post.
InnovationX Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) Intern
Conceptualized a tech sprint to bring together private and government stakeholders to modernize health IT on reservations. Worked on a research project on Long COVID to increase internal knowledge in line with an executive order requiring federal agencies to improve customer experiences.
Student Worker
Wrote alt-text to images in the library’s digital collection, wrote captions to oral history videos, and wrote software to accelerate workflow.
Social Issues Policy Shop intern
Wrote an op-ed on Hunter v. U.S. Department of Education, a case involving LGBTQ discrimination by religious schools. Gave a presentation on a policy proposal to improve public K-12 education.
Digital Platform Manager
Managed the Scalar book the content of the archives were to go in. Oversaw the overall design of the website meant to host the archive.