Featured Projects

  • Community Violence Intervention Data Framework

    In partnership with End Community Violence Now (ECVN), Interventionology is leading a collaborative research initiative to co-create a shared data framework across Delaware's Community Violence Intervention (CVI) ecosystem. This 11-month engagement brings together more than 15 practitioner organizations through a Community of Practice to build collective power for advocacy and meaningful systems improvement.

    The Challenge

    Community violence intervention organizations across Delaware collect data to meet funder requirements, but these metrics often fail to capture the community-defined indicators of progress that matter most to the people doing the work. Practitioners needed a framework that would serve organizing goals—not just compliance—while building their collective capacity to influence resource allocation and challenge systems that historically underfund community-led violence prevention.

    Our Approach

    Guided by an explicit equity framework that recognizes research as a tool for liberation, we center practitioner expertise and community wisdom throughout the process. Monthly convenings create space for practitioners to establish priorities and provide direction, while our research team handles the technical work. A Community Advisory Board of violence survivors and community leaders guides each phase, ensuring that community input informs all decisions.

    Scope of Work

    Phase 1: Data Inventory and Analysis (Sept 2025 - Feb 2026)
    Comprehensive mapping of current data collection practices across COP member organizations, examining how existing frameworks help or hinder communities based on practitioner guidance and community perspectives.

    Phase 2: Framework and Guidebook Development (Dec 2025 - May 2026)
    Co-creating a shared data framework through participatory design sessions, with practitioners leading visioning and priority-setting while we develop tools that meet both community needs and compliance standards.

    Phase 3: Implementation and Support (May 2026 - Aug 2026)
    Supporting practitioner-led implementation through training, technical assistance, and community report-back sessions that ensure data serve organizing goals and community accountability.

    Impact

    This project establishes a replicable model for equitable, community-driven evaluation across the CVI field. By centering community-defined indicators of well-being and progress, the framework expands collective power for advocacy while building practitioners' capacity to challenge systems and coordinate action.

Past Projects

Conducted as Savvy Social Researchers prior to founding Interventionology.

  • School Compliance Mapping & Analysis

    Challenge

    The Southern Poverty Law Center needed comprehensive data infrastructure and public-facing visualization tools to support civil rights litigation (PB v White) while making school compliance information accessible to communities most impacted by educational inequity.

    Approach

    Built geodatabase using SPSS for complex statistical analysis and developed GIS-based mapping tools using QGIS for public dissemination. Created data visualization infrastructure for court proceedings, produced geocoded school compliance records, and delivered public reports on New Orleans school compliance patterns.

    Impact

    Provided evidentiary foundation for legal proceedings while creating accessible tools for community education and organizing around school accountability and education justice. The public-facing maps and database enabled communities to track compliance patterns and advocate for systemic change.

    Research conducted as Savvy Social Researchers, LLC, 2021

  • School Discipline Disparities Study

    Challenge

    Documentation needed of systemic patterns in school discipline practices across Louisiana parishes to support legal advocacy addressing discriminatory outcomes for students of color, students with disabilities, and girls in Jefferson, St. Bernard, and Orleans parishes.

    Approach

    Analyzed disciplinary data across three Louisiana parishes, examining suspensions, arrests, and alternative school placements to document racial, gender, and disability-based disparities. Conducted statistical analysis using SPSS and provided consultation for School Resource Officer (SRO) policy development. Delivered multiple reports documenting exclusionary practices, disparities in referrals to alternative schools, and patterns of retention in alternative settings.

    Impact

    Provided statistical evidence supporting legal advocacy and policy change efforts to address discriminatory discipline practices. This research revealed how school discipline policies create pathways from education to incarceration—particularly for Black and Brown youth—which directly feeds community violence by destabilizing young people and families. Understanding these systemic contributors informs violence intervention approaches that address root causes.

    Research conducted in collaboration with Georgia State University as Savvy Social Researchers, 2021

Advisory & Consulting

  • Providing strategic guidance to national youth mental health advocacy organization on systems-level change, youth engagement, and family-centered approaches to behavioral health.