Lorraine Blatt '14 part of ICPSR Summer Internship Class of 2013

Lorraine Blatt Grinnell College, IA Archive: Education and Child Care Archives Processing Mentor: Rujuta Umarji

Lorraine is a double major in Psychology and Theatre graduating in 2014. She is familiar with the many intricacies of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) proposal, has conducted a field experiment with multiple subjects, and has analyzed data using SPSS and Minitab. In 2012 while studying abroad in London, UK, Lorraine worked with a non-profit arts organization that caters to the homeless populations, called Cardboard Citizens. She was responsible for the pilot implementation of a customized version of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) that Cardboard Citizens is now putting into practice. It is evident that Lorraine?s passion for psychology goes beyond the classroom and more specifically she would like to build on her work dealing with early education. In 2012, she interned at the Early Head Start, Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles CA where she managed, analyzed, and audited databases (including information on health services and medical records) and in 2013, she worked as a mentor at the Grinnell College Psychology Department. Combining her love of children and her second major, Lorraine has served as a teaching artist at the Hartford Children?s Theatre, a board member of Northeast Educational Theatre Association, and has held multiple stage manager positions. She is also a member of the Grinnell based a capella group, Noteworthy, and has performed several productions (both large and small scale) including the Fresher?s Musical Review at Imperial College, London, UK.

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• Teaching with Data, "ICPSR Summer Internship Class of 2013." June 4, 2013.