jackie patterson

I graduated Columbia College this December with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and have

research experience both at Columbia and at Princeton University. Since graduating, I have been

working for the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art and volunteering for the Center of Justice at

Columbia’s school of public health. I would love to bring my research experience to your

project.

My first research experience was working in MacArthur fellow Betsy Levy Paluck’s lab

at Princeton University. I entered data for a study on Orthodox Jewish women from a community

in Williamsburg and coded data for a prejudice reduction meta-analysis. I participated in

meetings with the team to discuss the inclusion criteria of papers for the meta-analysis and then

identified papers from the search results that met these criteria by reading upwards of a thousand

abstracts and, if necessary, delving deeper into the methods and outcomes of the studies. I did

similar work for Dr. Antebi-Gruska, an assistant professor at Columbia, for their study on LGB

and TGE (transgender and gender expansive) suicidality in Israel, the first such study on the

queer population of the country. I found, read, and summarized about a hundred studies on LGB

and TGE suicidality risk and protective factors.

I also worked briefly for Princeton adjunct Robin Gomila and Teacher College’s Dr.

Gushue. I became proficient in R and Qualtrics in helping edit Robin’s statistical methods

textbook and creating a survey for his study. In Dr. Gushue’s lab, I recruited participants for their

studies and presented on relevant papers to the team.

I believe I have the skills necessary to be an asset to your team. I also believe the work

you’re doing is important and would appreciate being a part of it.

Psychology research experience at Princeton and Columbia University. See About me section for more details

BA in Psychology from Columbia University.