Biography
Dr. Amanda Welsh is Faculty Director for Leadership and Project Management in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University as well as being a Professor of the Practice to the Analytics & Enterprise Intelligence domain in the College.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Welsh worked for 25 years in the intersection of big data and consumer behavior, founding two data-driven start-ups, working as a media research scientist at Google, and most recently serving as EVP, Data Science for The Nielsen Company where she designed and oversaw a multinational ecosystem of data companies. Dr. Welsh actively researches data collection and use and has written a book on consumer data tracking and privacy.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, Amanda is active in the non-profit world as Executive Director of The Foundation for Scholarly Culture and, before that, sat on the Board of Directors for Raising a Reader, a US literacy/family engagement program. She earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University.
Sessions
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ELA-22
SOL15
The Value of Digital Credentialing Systems and Certifications
2022-05-12 14:45
“Scaling the Fundamental Building Block of a Digital Credential Ecosystem: SkillsTech”