Samuel is responsible for building and scaling the institute’s data infrastructure for initiatives including the American Growth Project.

Before joining the Kenan Institute, he was the research data manager for the Education Policy Initiative here at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, managing all aspects of data processing for UNC research and evaluation projects analyzing North Carolina educational systems. He was also a research associate for Innovations for Poverty Action in Accra, Ghana, where he developed and implemented a mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing survey to capture children’s learning levels across 500 elementary schools.

Samuel has a master’s degree in economics from Western Illinois University and a bachelor’s in economics from the Université de Lomé in Lomé, Togo, plus a certificate in survey methodology from UNC.