Riley Loria

Skills

A/B testing & randomized controlled trials, Survey design & questionnaire development, Messaging & communication testing, Audience segmentation & behavioral profiling, Mixed-methods research, Regression & multilevel modeling, Structural equation modeling, Longitudinal data analysis, Matching & quasi-experimental methods, Psychometrics & scale validation, R, tidyverse, ggplot2, modeling workflows, SQL (data extraction & transformation), Python (working knowledge) Tableau, Power BI, Excel (advanced), Google Sheets, Executive-ready reporting, Dashboard development, Data storytelling for technical & non-technical stakeholders, Presentation of insights to leadership audiences

About

Behavioral scientist and public opinion researcher with 8+ years of experience designing, fielding, and analyzing survey research on political attitudes, democratic institutions, and decision-making. Expertise in survey instrument development, survey experiments, and quantitative polling analysis using R. Experienced producing memos, visualizations, and stakeholder-ready syntheses of public opinion data for applied audiences. Background spans academic research and applied partnerships with policymakers and advocacy organizations focused on democracy and institutional engagement.