RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Sivén, Jacqueline, Bethany Boggess, Yeon Kyeong Kim-Cho, Lisbeth Gall, Byung Wook Kim, Alfonso Rodriguez Lainz. (in press). Best practices for using phone interpretation with multilingual communities: Results from a pilot project with agricultural and meat processing workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Local Tables Research to Investigate Access to Public Benefits for Refugees and Immigrants after the Trump-era Public Charge Rule.
Primary investigator for Des Moines area research. Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, partnered research project with Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF), Urban Institute, RIVA, and scholars from San Diego State University and Drexel University.
Telephonic Interpretation During Field Surveys in Multilingual Communities.
CDC, CDC Foundation, RIVA, NCFH
National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) and RIVA (under the organization’s former name EMBARC) developed a communications toolkit of best practices for fieldwork researchers attempting to interview and collect data from participants who speak languages other than English — particularly among those who speak low-incidence languages, such as Karen, Karenni and Chin dialects. This project was funded by CDC and CDC Foundation.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Kopenhaver Center Fellow, AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, AEJMC Council of Affiliates, August 2024-August 2025
Mental Health and Well-Being: Supporting Korean Adoptees ($5000), Ministry of Health and Welfare, National Center for the Rights of the Child, South Korea. March 2024-November 2024.
Youth Board Development Award ($3000), Volunteer Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, Janurary 2024-September 2024
Achievement Recognition, World Korean Association Leaders Forum, Seoul, Korea, October, 2023
Appreciation of Service Award, Midwest Federation of Korean American Association (MFKAA), June 2023
PhDigital Program Fellowship, Texas State University and Knight Foundation, Summer 2022
National Service Fellowship Award ($9000), Volunteer Iowa (AmeriCorps), April- October 2022
Points of Light Leader BIPOC Scholarship ($1100), Points of Light, Summer 2022
24th Future Leaders Conference (Invited speaker, all-expense paid), The Overseas Koreans Foundation (OKF), Summer 2022