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

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

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++