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Rachel Messer, PhD (she/her/hers)

Data Scientist
Creative Research Solutions, LLC, United States

Rachel H. Messer, Ph.D. is at Data Scientist at Creative Research Solutions, LLC and has a decade of experience leading quantitative and mixed-methods research. Dr. Messer strives for research and evaluation to be a mutually-beneficial activity between researchers and participants, using inclusive practices as a way to engage in service and activism for participant populations.

She has written, implemented, coordinated, and collected data for NIA and NSF-sponsored programs for older adults and college students. She has also published over 25 original research papers, encyclopedia entries, and reviews, including venues such as Oxford Bibliographies Online, the International Journal of Humor Research, and Current Psychology. Dr. Messer has presented her research at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, as well as to non-technical audiences and local media outlets.

Her previous evaluation work has included the implementation and evaluation of a research fellowship program for first-generation and underserved students in Appalachia, and she co-chaired strategic planning to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the university structure using data-driven decision-making. Dr. Messer has also served as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Research at Florida Atlantic University and Director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at Bethel College (KS), where she worked to increase the accessibility of higher education for Black, Latine, and Indigenous students. Her former board work includes serving as academic representative on the board of the Kentucky Psychological Association and being a founding board member of the Appalachian College Association Center for Teaching & Learning.

As a Data Scientist at CRS, Dr. Messer uses a critical lens to engage in ethical research, data justice, and data feminism, with social impact at the core of each process. She holds a Ph.D. in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from Oklahoma State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and French from Morehead State University.

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