Madeline Young

Analyst with a passion for education, climate justice, technology, and math.

EXPERIENCE

GRID Alternatives Los Angeles

Grants Administrator Sep 2022 - Present

• Automated grant deliverable tracking processes by creating Salesforce dashboards for our Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) grants
• Developing new systems for quantifying community engagement in collaboration with GRID’s outreach and workforce development teams
• Supporting quantitative and qualitative data analysis for output and outcome data for annual, grants, and ad hoc reports and presentation-ready decks

The Climate Music Project Remote

Science Communications Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

• Wrote web-based educational guides that translate the science behind each of our compositions for broad audiences, and empower individuals to participate in climate action
• Hosted our associated podcast, Climate Vibes, and identified collaborations and promotional strategies to amplify the reach of the podcast

UCLA Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Los Angeles

Undergraduate Research Assistant Apr 2018 - Dec 2019

• Analyzed remote sensing data using statistics with Matlab, and created figures to visualize findings for a UCLA lab in partnership with NASA JPL
• Used image analysis to identify a methodology for distinguishing between different species of trees
• Verbally presented findings at weekly meetings; wrote analytical summaries to document my work

EDUCATION & COURSEWORK

University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

Climate Science, B.S. Graduation Date: October 2020

• Organizations: Camp Kesem, UCLA Radio, CALPIRG Students
• Coursework: Statistics, Atmospheric Science, Programming in Matlab, Python, and C++

Recreational Learning: DataQuest’s Data Scientist in Python (25% complete, 60 hours)