Portfolio

The links below will take you to a Google Drive folder organized by type and theme of the work. To see published pieces, check out my Google Scholar page here.

Testimonials and Praise

Leadership:

Tabitha has excellent leadership and team management skills. While there are many volunteers at the JFS Refugee Resettlement program, I always receive prompt feedback and support directly from her. It can sometimes be discouraging when encountering roadblocks while working with clients. However, Tabitha is patient and positive in mentoring volunteers by providing active listening, construction suggestions, and creative problem-solving. 

Besides, I was also impressed by Tabitha's dedication to making a difference in our community. She has a genuine interest and passion for working with the refugee population. Due to the huge influx of Afghan refugees since 2021, caseworkers at JFS have been overwhelmed by the volume and demands. Tabitha created the Resource Navigator volunteer position to help newly resettled refugee families receive subsidiary support to access community resources. Meanwhile, this also allows caseworkers to focus on more essential and urgent needs, and offer community members, like me, a flexible and hands-on opportunity to help our new neighbors. 

I am very grateful to have Tabitha as my volunteer supervisor, and I look forward to working with her in the future. I believe her strengths and skills make her an asset to any company. - JFS Refugee Resettlement Volunteer, Siying

Research: 

Tabitha Belshee’s thesis, “Doing Right by Our Children: Understanding and Redressing President Trump’s ‘Zero-Tolerance Policy’,” analyzes child separation at the U.S. border, focusing on migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

The prize committee noted that Belshee, a politics concentrator, “deftly” deploys multiple methods — historical overview; policy analysis; and application of two models of quantitative data analysis, neural network modeling and game theory. “Her argument is persuasive,” the committee concluded, “and her presentation of data, including her predictive account of the fates of three fictional children using the neural network model, are compelling.”

The Thorp prize — named in honor of Professor of English Willard Thorp a founder of the program and for many years its director — is awarded to the senior in the American studies program who prepares the most outstanding thesis of a clearly interdisciplinary nature. 

Tutoring and Consulting: 

It takes a special skill to explain difficult concepts in a variety of ways and you can tell that Tabitha is able to adjust her methods depending on the student's learning style. - R Programming Client, Allison

Tabitha is so patient and has a gift for being able to explain concepts in an understandable fashion. [T]here have been certain coding and statistical concepts that I have not understood for months after watching YouTube videos, attending classes, and reading so many textbooks, but after one session with Tabitha I finally understand. - R Programming Client, Jennifer