Biography:

Cinnamon received a PhD in social psychology from Penn State in 2011 and did post-doctoral fellowships both in teaching and research at Penn State and the University of Washington, respectively. She likes working in an applied educational setting like UCSC because she can see the results of her work put into action. Previously, Cinnamon was Principal Analyst at UC Merced. She likes working in an applied educational setting like UC Merced because she can see the results of her work put into action. Her areas of focus at UC Merced are surveys and student success research projects. As a first-generation college student and a product of higher education herself, she loves coming to work every day because she gets to help the campus use data to achieve its mission of teaching, research, and public service.