Cassia Wagner
Project Manager at Uganda Orphans Fund
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCassia Wagner is a project manager and interdisciplinary researcher with six years’ experience applying microbiology and economics to real-world problems, currently leading the launch of the first children’s medical clinic in Kamuli District, Uganda. She combines hands-on virology expertise—having led discovery and structural characterization of a novel virus using cryo-electron tomography—with quantitative economic research on student debt and financial education. Based in Bozeman, Montana, she bridges field project delivery, lab-based discovery, and data-driven policy analysis. An active contributor to open-source outbreak tools, she helped internationalize Nextstrain’s SARS-CoV-2 narratives by merging multi-language updates and adjusting visualization scripts for phylogenetic displays. Her background in journalism and editorial leadership sharpens her communication of complex scientific findings to diverse audiences. She brings a rare mix of field implementation, lab-based virology, and data modeling to impact-focused health projects.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Economics, 3.95 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Economics, 3.95 GPA at Montana State University-Bozeman
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
localize10
localization10
sar10
python10
translation10
translate10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
json8
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nextstrain/ncov
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Nextstrain build for SARS-CoV-2
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 313 commits, 101 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Cassia primarily contributed to the Nextstrain build for SARS-CoV-2 by merging translation updates for the "sit-rep" narratives in multiple languages, specifically Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, German, Polish, and Farsi. These merges involved modifications to the `assign-colors.py` and `modify_tree_according_to_division_exposure.py` scripts, suggesting a focus on data visualization and phylogenetic tree adjustments. Additional commits fixed links and updated the build's configuration, further supporting the narrative translations across different languages.
ncovnovel-coronavirussars-cov-2sars-covnextstrain
nextstrain/translations
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Repo for translations of nextstrain website and COVID-19 weekly situation reports.
Contributions:335 commits, 100 PRs, 473 pushes in 5 months
reportstranslationstranslationnextstrainsituation
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