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1 October 2015 AMANDA JEAN STEVENSON Department of Sociology Population Research Center Texas Policy Evaluation Project University of Texas at Austin 305 E. 23rd Street Stop G1800 Austin, Texas EDUCATION 2016 (anticipated) Ph.D. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Dissertation: Crucible of Conflict: Emotions and Abortion Activism on Twitter Committee: Joseph E. Potter (chair), Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Becky Pettit, Michael P. Young, Shannon Cavanaugh, Pedro Vaz de Melo M.A. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin 2002 B.S. Math and Computer Science, The Evergreen State College AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALIZATION Reproductive and sexual health, demography, quantitative methods, social movements and emotions, social policy evaluation, computational social science. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2015 Potter, Joseph E., Celia Hubert, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kristine Hopkins, Abigail R. A. Aiken, Kari White, and Daniel Grossman, Barriers to Postpartum Contraception in Texas and Pregnancy within Two Years of Delivery, forthcoming in Obstetrics and Gynecology Stevenson, Amanda Jean and Joseph E. Potter, Abortion access and state variation in measured unintended pregnancy, Contraception, 92(3): White, Kari, Joseph E. Potter, Kristine Hopkins, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Celia Hubert, Abigail R. A. Aiken, and Daniel Grossman. The impact of reproductive health legislation on family planning clinic services in Texas, The American Journal of Public Health, 105(5): Stevenson, Amanda Jean. Finding the Twitter users who stood with Wendy, Contraception, 90: Potter, Joseph E., Kristine Hopkins, Abigail R. A. Aiken, Celia Hubert, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kari White, and Daniel Grossman. Unmet demand for highly effective postpartum contraception in Texas, Contraception, 90: Grossman, Daniel, Sarah Baum, Liza Fuentes, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, Amanda Jean Stevenson, and Joseph E. Potter, Change in abortion services after implementation of a restrictive law in Texas, Contraception, 90: Potter, Joseph E., Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, and Daniel Grossman. Hospital Variation in Postpartum Tubal Sterilization Rates in California and Texas, Obstetrics and Gynecology 121(1):

2 2011 Olds, David L., Harriet J. Kitzman, Rebecca E. Cole, Carole Hanks, Elizabeth E. Arcoleo, Elizabeth Anson, Dennis W. Luckey, Michael D. Knudtson, Charles R. Henderson Jr, Jessica Bondy, Amanda Jean Stevenson. Enduring Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting by Nurses on Maternal Life Course and Government Spending: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial Among Children at Age 12 Years, Archives of Pediatric Medicine, 164(5): Olds, David L., Harriet J. Kitzman, Carole Hanks, Rebecca E. Cole, Elizabeth Anson, Kimberly Sidora-Arcoleo, Dennis W. Luckey, Charles Henderson, Jr., John Holmberg, Rebecca A. Tutt, Amanda Jean Stevenson and Jessica Bondy Effects of nurse home visiting on maternal and child functioning: Age-9 Follow-up of a Randomized Trial. Pediatrics, 120(4):e MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Imelda M. Garcia-Vazquez, Richard L. Allgeyer, Pete Schenkkan, and Joseph E. Potter, The impact of excluding Planned Parenthood from a fee-for-service family planning program in Texas revise and resubmit at The New England Journal of Medicine. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Emotions, engagement, and social movement ties among Texas abortion activists for submission to American Sociological Review. Draft available upon request. Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Spatial variation in medication abortion in Texas: a component of abortion access for submission to The American Journal of Public Health. Draft available upon request. Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Emotions, race, and abortion framing among pro-choice activists SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Imelda M. Garcia-Vazquez, Richard L. Allgeyer, Pete Schenkkan, and Joseph E. Potter, The impact of excluding Planned Parenthood from a state family planning program North American Forum on Family Planning. Chicago, IL, November Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Emotions, engagement, and social movement ties among Texas abortion activists, American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 22-24, Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Potter, J. E. Abortion access and state variation in measured unintended pregnancy, American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 22-24, Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Emotions and social movement engagement on Twitter International Conference on Web and Social Media. Oxford, UK. May 26-29, Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Emotions and social movement ties among Texas abortion activists, Computational Social Science Summit. Evanston, IL. May 15-17, Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Spatial variation in medical abortion: a component of abortion access Population Association of America. San Diego, CA. April 30 - May 2, Potter, Joseph E., Celia Hubert, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kristine Hopkins, Abigail R. A. Aiken, Kari White, and Daniel Grossman, Rapid repeat pregnancies among women reporting a preference for longacting or reversible contraception in Texas Population Association of America. San Diego, CA. April 30 - May 2,

3 Stevenson, Amanda Jean and Joseph E. Potter, Abortion access and state variation in unintended pregnancy North American Forum on Family Planning. Miami, FL, October Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Crucible of conflict: Twitter and Texas abortion opinions North American Forum on Family Planning. Miami, FL, October Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Putting Abortion Opinions into Place: A spatial-temporal analysis of Twitter data Population Association of America. Boston, MA. May 1-3, Stevenson, Amanda Jean and Joseph E. Potter, The effect of Catholic hospitals on rates of postpartum sterilization in California and Texas Population Association of America. Boston, MA. May 1-3, Stevenson, A.J., Kari White, Celia Hubert, Kristine Hopkins, Abigail A. R. Aiken, Daniel Grossman, and Joseph E. Potter, Spatial variation in the impact of family planning cuts in Texas. North American Forum on Family Planning. Seattle, WA. 5 October Stevenson, Amanda Jean and Joseph E. Potter, Spatial analysis of access to postpartum sterilization in two U.S. States. XXVII International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, September 26-31, Potter, Joseph E., Kristine Hopkins, Kari White, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Abigail R. A. Aiken, Celia Hubert, and Daniel Grossman, Evaluating the impact of abortion restrictions and drastic budget cuts for family planning in Texas. XXVII International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea, September 26-31, Stevenson, Amanda Jean, "The effect of first interbirth interval and union status on women s poverty at midlife" Population Association of America. New Orleans, LA. April 11-13, Potter, Joseph E., Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kari White, and Daniel Grossman, "Hospital variation in postpartum tubal sterilization rates in California and Texas" North American Forum on Family Planning. Denver, CO. 27 October Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Exploratory and Descriptive Data Analysis for Site-Level Outcomes Western Users of SAS Software, Long Beach, CA, 5 September Stevenson, Amanda Jean, "The effect of first interbirth interval on women s poverty at midlife" American Sociological Association Meetings, Denver, CO. 16 August Potter, Joseph E., Amanda Jean Stevenson, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, and Daniel Grossman, "Hospital variation in postpartum tubal sterilization rates in California and Texas" Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA. 3-5 May Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Celia Hubert, Closely Spaced births and socioeconomic outcomes: A comparison of causal methods Southern Demographic Association Meeting, Tallahassee, FL, 20 October Stevenson, Amanda Jean, Causal methods for observational data Western Users of SAS Software, San Francisco, CA, 13 October OTHER PRESENTATIONS Stevenson, Amanda Jean Twitter data for social research UT Sociology Department Brown Bag Series, Austin, TX. 10 September

4 Potter, Joseph E., Abigail A. R. Aiken, Celia Hubert, Amanda Jean Stevenson, Politics, policies, and reproductive health in Texas. UT Sociology Department Brown Bag Series, Austin, TX. 9 February Stevenson, Amanda Jean Slow Pitch Statistics: Causality with pictures UT Sociology Department Brown Bag Series, Austin, TX. 3 November FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Sociology Department Graduate Excellence Award ($6,382 and tuition) 2015 University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts University Continuing Fellowship ($10,708 and tuition) 2015 Professional Development Award, University of Texas ($500) 2015 ICWSM Student award, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ($1000) University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts University Continuing Fellowship ($25,000 and tuition) 2012 Academic Fellowship, Western Users of SAS Software ($1,200) 2012 Professional Development Award, University of Texas ($400) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Traineeship in Population Studies ($21,000 and tuition) University of Texas College of Liberal Arts Fellowship in Quantitative Research Methods ($5,000) 2011 University of Texas College of Liberal Arts Fellowship ($5,000, declined) 2011 Academic Fellowship, Western Users of SAS Software ($1,200) AWARDS AND HONNORS 2013 Comprehensive exams in Demography and Fertility, honors 2013 PAA Poster Award for "The effect of first interbirth interval and union status on women s poverty at midlife" Population Association of America. New Orleans, LA. April 11-13, Best Contributed Paper, Health Outcomes Research Methodologies, Western Users of SAS Software for Causal Methods for Observational Data. TEACHING Co-Instructor Fall 2015 Reproductive Health and Population in Texas Guest Lectures Big data and Twitter for social research: biases and opportunities Fall 2014 Intro to Social Research Reproductive health policy in the U.S. and Texas Spring 2015 Health and Society Fall 2014 Life-and-Death Decisions Fall 2014 Population and Society Fall 2014 Women s Reproductive Health Spring 2014 Population and Society Spring 2014 Women s Reproductive Health Fall 2013 Population and Society Spring 2013 Social Welfare Policy 4

5 Issues in the formal demography of unintended pregnancy Spring 2014 Demography of Human Fertility (graduate) Three lectures on discrete and continuous life table functions Fall 2012 Population Processes and Models Other Summer 2012 Fall 2010 Mentor Research Experience for Undergraduates Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin Teaching Assistant Sociology of Criminal Justice, University of Texas at Austin PUBLIC SERVICE AND DISSEMINATION Invited and public witness before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and House State Affairs Committees of the Texas Legislature, 18 appearances, 2011 present. Formal public written and oral testimony regarding the impact of family planning and abortion policies on demographic and economic outcomes. Testimony available online or by request. Executive committee member, Jane s Due Process, 2012 present. Jane s Due Process provides legal representation for pregnant and parenting minors to exercise their educational and reproductive rights. Stevenson, A. J., Twitter analysis shows not all Texans want abortion rights limited, Houston Chronicle, June 24, Op-ed based on my article in the journal Contraception, Finding the Twitter users who stood with Wendy. Designed and implemented the Texas Family Planning Data Finder App, This app for web and smartphones displays estimates of the impact of Texas 2011 budget cuts at multiple levels of geographic aggregation. I developed the estimates using standard demographic methods, designed the app for their display, and supervised development of the app. Papers on which I am an author have been cited in the following outlets: The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Austin American Statesman, HR Reality Check, Spokesman Review, Houston Chronicle, Texas Tribune, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, San Antonio Current, Austin Chronicle, McAllen Monitor, and others. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2010-present Graduate Researcher with The Texas Policy Evaluation Project Supervisor: Joseph E. Potter Professional Research Assistant University of Colorado School of Public Health Statistical Programmer Research and Data Analysis Section, Washington State Assistant Director and Lead Mathematics Tutor Quantitative Reasoning Center, Evergreen State College PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association (Since 2011) Population Association of America (Since 2011) Society of Family Planning (Since 2013) 5

6 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Since 2013) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Since 2015) 6

M.S. Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison (expected) May M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2007

M.S. Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison (expected) May M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2007 Dana Garbarski 8128 Sewell Social Sciences 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 (608) 239-8174 dgarbars@ssc.wisc.edu Department of Sociology & Department of Population Health Sciences EDUCATION Ph.D.