Talks and presentations

Getting Started with R and RStudio

January 24, 2024

Workshop, CIFAL Honolulu DataSkills for Nonprofits, Remote

This session conducted for staff at Habilitat: Long-term Addiction Treatment and Hawaiʻi Appleseed: Center for Law and Economic Justice introduced R and RStudio with start-up scripts for data importing, cleaning, manipulating, and visualizing. Designed for staff with no coding experience, we started with how to download and install R and RStudio, how to create a new RProject, and best practices in data management for R.

Implementing Design Thinking

September 12, 2023

Workshop, Sustainability Innovation 1, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI

I had the pleasure of visiting the inaugural class “Sustainability Innovation I” in the Department of Environmental Studies in Fall 2023 to conduct a workshop for the students on Implementing Design Thinking for sustainability entrepreneurship.

Systems Change for the NSF ALL-SPICE Alliance

September 06, 2023

Workshop, NSF ALL-SPICE Alliance Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI

This workshop explored the fundamental concepts of Systems Change, with a particular focus on identifying key leverage points and systems mapping. The NSF ALL-SPICE Alliance leadership identified current and potential leverage points, and committed to exploring systems mapping for understanding the Pacific data science ecosystem.