Hannah-Graber-Portfolio
Hannah Graber Telling Stories with Data Portfolio
About me
Hey y’all! I’m Hannah (she/her): a self-proclaimed digital equity aficionado with an affinity for sustainable community development and workforce programming. I am currently based in Pittsburgh, PA where I’m pursuing my Masters degree in Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon. My academic interests lie at the intersection of broadband, community development, and policy analysis. My ultimate goal here in grad school is to learn how to lift communities with evidence-based recommendations, advanced technology, and data.
Here’s me:
What I hope to learn
This past summer, I was lucky enough to work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in the Community Development department where I delved into broadband and digital equity research in areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky. I realized that after the data cleaning and analysis phase, I was curious to know the most effective methods of comunicating my findings visually. I’m grateful that my education at the Heinz College at CMU prioritizes real-world technical skills and competencies that I can use in my career post-grad. In this course, I hope to learn more about the principles of effective data visualization design, tools for creating visualizations like Tableau, and finally—to create a publicly accessible portfolio of work (featured here!).
Once I graduate, I hope to work in broadband policy research at a think tank, consulting entity, or non-profit. Hopefully, I’ll be able to utilize my skills in programming, database management, and data visualization to make change at a systemic level in the United States.