Compensation Consultant
January 2025 - Present
I combine data-driven methodologies with human centered design to build compensation systems that are competitive and just. Drawing from role benchmarking, market trending, geographic differentials, and regression modeling, I expose structural pay inequities embedded across gender, race, and organizational hierarchy. My work sits at the intersection of data science, economics, and ethics, using empirical insight to inform systems that expand opportunity, sustain organizational health, and translate fairness into measurable economic outcomes.
Board of Directors, Research and Data Analyst
June 2021 - Present
I currently partner with Govern for America's executive leadership to drive financial strategy, eliminate the risk of insolvency, and build a sustainable path forward. Formerly, I strengthened the State of Missouri’s data infrastructure by building cross-agency dashboards, leading statewide analytics workshops, and introducing technological solutions that improved efficiency across its tax system as a Fellow.
Research Assistant to Dr. Robert Hockett
June 2020 - August 2020
Despite their widespread adoption, traditional economic indicators such as the gross domestic product (GDP) fail to capture the true health of an economy. As a part of a new indices project, I used quintile analysis to illustrate the vastly unequal distribution of income growth across six countries with growing macroeconomies.
Formerly...
Passion Projects
Co-Founder
September 2025 - Present
Amidst Nepal's recent Gen-Z revolution, I collaborated with Shree Pandey to build 100 Days Nepal. 100 Days Nepal is a living archive of collective intelligence where thousands of Nepali citizens and diaspora voices imagine justice, revolution, and the path forward.
Featured in the Kathmandu Post.
Founding Member
March 2020 - Present
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I collaborated with seven students across five universities to launch an educational technology startup, EduMate NYC, to redress the educational inequities exacerbated by New York City public school students’ transition to remote learning. Within one of the most segregated school districts in the country, EduMate NYC connects disadvantaged elementary to high school students with academic tutors from 250+ universities across the world to fill in the gaps in their education.
Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Chalkbeat, News 12 Bronx, Gothamist and Bklyner.
Public Noise
Work and Hope Return, Slowly but Surely, 100 Days Nepal's Feature in The Kathmandu Post, 2025
100 Days Nepal began as an instrument of collective intelligence. It has transformed into a living archive of the people’s priorities, a place where grief turns into vision, and vision into possibility. I’m grateful our journey was featured in The Kathmandu Post.
Designing Data for Social Impact: How to Craft Ethical Dashboards that Inspire Change, Speaker at the Code for America Summit, 2025
Data is a powerful tool, but when dashboards prioritize efficiency over empathy, they perpetuate systemic bias under the guise of objectivity. At the Code for America Summit, I spoke about how design encodes power, how methodology biases data stories, and how human-centered visualization can shift narrative autonomy back to local communities.
Govern for America's Impact Report, 2024
In 2024, GFA Fellows impacted more than 19 million people across the country and contributed to $3.7 billion in community investment. As a Board Member, I’m honored to have helped guide this work and to continue supporting its growing impact.
How Jeni Dhodary “Fights for Justice” as a Govern For America Fellow, A ProFellow Feature, 2022
I was recognized in a 2022 ProFellow feature for my positive impact on the State of Missouri's taxation system as a Govern for America Fellow.
Awarded the Best of Show Award for my Article "The Economy as a Body," 2021
My article, "The Economy as a Body," was selected for the Best of Show Award by the Associated Collegiate Press in the Spring 2021 National College Media Convention.
Warm Acknowledgement by my favorite economist, Dr. Robert Hockett, in the ICL Journal, 2021
Warm Acknowledgement by my favorite economist, Dr. Robert Hockett, in the ICL Journal, 2021
Warm Acknowledgement by my favorite economist, Dr. Robert Hockett, in the ICL Journal, 2021
Dr. Robert Hockett kindly extended an acknowledgement to me in his paper "Social-Contractarian Money" for the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law. I cherish this gesture and would like to encourage that everyone with an interest in law and economics read the paper.