About Us

Gloria has spent her career serving nonprofits in various roles, starting in public relations, fundraising, and strategic planning. Over the years, each of these roles were enhanced by using data science and data visualization. Gloria has recently focused on helping nonprofits use data analysis to help guide evidence-based and data-driven decision-making. 

In her most recent role with the Riley Center for Livable Communities at the College of Charleston, Gloria led an effort providing GIS analysis for nonprofit programs. Most of her work focused on conducting analysis to determine equitable food distributions based on social determinants of health and economic need. Following the COVID pandemic, Gloria's efforts focused on mapping disaster relief efforts of a local food bank and creating a public-facing free food finder app that helps those in need to find resources close to them.

Gloria's research interests are focused on social determinants of health as they relate to social and environmental justice for minorities and under-served populations. Her second area of research interest is in the legislation of nonprofit governance and the charitable tax deduction. Gloria has also completed extensive research on employee compensation and review systems related to Public Service Motivation. 

Gloria received a Master's in Public Administration and a Bachelor's in Religious Studies from the College of Charleston. 

Georges received his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina and, before that, an MPH from the American University of Beirut, and an undergraduate degree in Biology from the Lebanese University. He is a former Research Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, providing biostatistics support to researchers through the Biostatistics Shared Resource at the Hollings Cancer Center. Georges currently works as a senior epidemiologist in vaccine research for a private entity. 

His expertise spans a wide range of methodologies such as adjustive analytics, predictive analytics, survival analysis, survey development, randomized controlled trials, and population-based interventions. Georges has collaborated on multiple grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) such as P01’s, R01’s, R21’s, U54’s, and others since 2014.

Georges is most interested in research that impacts the health of the public and research that informs policy.