Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

Zawadi is a PhD candidate in the sociology department. Since 2015, she has been the Qualitative Data Lead at D-Lab.  She leads workshops on qualitative data analysis, provides consulting for qualitative projects, and organizes the Qualitative Methods Group working group. 

Her prior research experience includes interviews, observations, and documents in both academic and evaluation research. She offers guidance for coding and analysis plans, data management, data security, and group coding for projects using qualitative data analysis software, word processing tools, spreadsheets, and paper and highlighters. Software assistance available for both NVivo and Atlas.TI.

Prior to graduate school at Berkeley, Zawadi worked in evaluation research at MDRC and the Community College Research Center, taught program evaluation, and completed a Master's in Public Administration.