KRISTINA HANDY

Ph.D.	2005	University of Maryland (Political Science)
M.A.	1997	University of Maryland (Political Science)
M.A.	1994	Brigham Young University (International and Area Studies)
B.A.	1990	Brigham Young University (International Relations and Spanish)

Dr. Handy has over 15 years of experience in both qualitative and quantitative social science research. She has worked on and directed many projects providing data collection, management and analysis. Dr. Handy’s areas of expertise are military personnel policy, population representation, civil-military relations, and defense and national security policies and analysis. She has worked with such clients as the Army Research Institute, the Army, Navy and Air Force, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and many other private and public agencies.

Dr. Handy has worked on numerous projects during her tenure at HumRRO. Most recently Dr. Handy has focused on diversity/demographic reporting for government agencies. She was the project director for the Population Representation in the Military Services report, annually submitted to Congress through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. During that project she was responsible for requesting, verifying, and analyzing data, preparing numerous tables and figures for the presentation of data, and coordinating the writing, editing and internet-accessibility of the report. She is currently directing a similar project for another government agency.

Recently, Dr. Handy analyzed and reported on the 2006 Surveys of Reserve Component Spouses. In this project, HumRRO analyzed the data gathered through this survey and provided the Defense Manpower Data Center with reports covering its execution, results, and implications.

As a member of a team, Dr. Handy finished a project for the Director for Accession Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) called Qualified Military Available (QMA). The goal of the project was to develop estimates of youth who are qualified and available for service, enhancing the ability of DoD and the military services to target recruiting resources. The QMA team created a tool that would enable the military user to understand sources of disqualification in a particular demographic cell, and gauge the numbers with insufficient mental/education qualification or who would require a medical, moral character, or dependents waiver for entry. Dr. Handy provided the QMA team with the moral qualification analysis.

Dr. Handy is currently working on a team responsible for evaluating the Army’s Foreign Language Recruiting Initiative. This program is designed to use a native language general aptitude screening test, in addition to the usual enlistment screening procedures, to evaluate applicants whose first language is not English. Dr. Handy’s main responsibilities are data collection and handling and reporting and liaison efforts to Military Entrance Processing Stations and Army and Army National Guard Language Centers.

She completed a DMDC study entitled the ASVAB Career Exploration program. As project director, she studied the career development programs used in high schools nation-wide by surveying high school counselors and their opinions towards the ASVAB Career Exploration Program. She is the current project director for the Population Representation in the Military Services report, which is annually submitted to Congress. She is responsible for requesting, verifying, and analyzing data, preparing numerous tables and figures for the presentation of data, and coordinating the writing and editing of the report.

She recently served as a primary analyst for a moral waivers validation study for the Directorate for Accession Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy). In this project she is assessed the reliability of waiver policies across services and managed a large-scale data collection and coding effort.

Dr. Handy has helped manage, design and participate in various data collection projects for the Army, Navy, INS, Department of Education and other agencies. She has also been responsible for numerous literature reviews, research and reporting tasks, statistical analyses, as well as data management projects.

Dr. Handy taught two sections of Political Science Methodology to third-class Midshipmen who were Political Science majors. Her duties included preparing the syllabus, quizzes, exams, homework assignments and classroom lectures and discussions.

Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues (1998 - 1999)

Dr. Handy's duties included designing and producing the literature review section for the Commission's final report. This work is an inventory and documentation of the range and magnitude of knowledge that exists on the subject of gender integration in the U.S. military. The literature review's scope is comprehensive to include the broader topics of women in the military, military training, civilian law enforcement, gender integration and cross-national gender integration in non-U.S. militaries. Dr. Handy also produced three separate studies/reports at the request of the Commissioners: Gender Integration of Militaries Outside of the United States, Women’s Integration in Non-Traditional Work Sectors and Executive, Legislative and Policy Chronology of Women in the

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military.

Dr. Handy's duties included research and writing for the purposes of military-related, political and professional consulting which the agency provides to its various public and private and official contracts and clients. Most recent project: Phase II Final Report for the Army XXI (for the Institutional Force).

University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics (1997 - 1999)

Dr. Handy provided additional instruction, classroom time and discussion for introductory statistics (graduate-level course) and introductory International Relations courses (undergraduate-level course). She provided extra reading material, developed and graded quizzes and exams and student papers. She also provided office hours and student-professor liaison.

Dr. Handy directed and motivated university and high school students as they participated in an ICONS educational computer simulation of international affairs.

Dr. Handy coded data events for the GEDS project (U.S. Department of Defense contract through the Center for International Development and Conflict Management [CIDCM], University of Maryland).

Dr. Handy supervised Case Managers and Outreach Workers. She provided report and grant writing for county, state and federal grants. She developed and monitored Salt Lake City 's Asian-Pacific Islander Youth Task Force, Youth Clubs, tutoring program activities and other projects, and developed networks with other agencies.

Dr. Handy wrote proposals for grants and contracts, including budgets for new proposals, and provided quarterly program reporting for the Agent Orange Class Assistance Program grant. She was involved in case management and advocacy for Vietnam veteran clientele, program administration and record-keeping.

Dr. Handy was responsible for the compilation, organization, and editing of the monthly Newsletter, and yearly Convention Program and Membership Directory.

Dr. Handy completed a reorganization and synthesis of MX (Peacekeeper), LGM-30 (Minuteman) Planning Division's Maintenance files.

Dr. Handy completed several statistical reports for the fishery, pharmaceutical, and machinery section of the Embassy's commercial department.

Dr. Handy assisted in the duplication, computer input, and maintenance of government documents.

Dr. Handy worked in the APO's accountable section. She was individually responsible for the organization, accounting and delivery of insured and certified mail.

Dr. Handy produced and planned technical illustrations for use in training and instructional textbooks.

American Political Science Association
International Studies Association

· University of Maryland , Department of Government & Politics Teaching Assistantship, 1997 - 1999

· University of Maryland, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Fellowship, 1995 - 1997

· David M. Kennedy Center for International & Area Studies Scholarship, 1990 - 1991

Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness (2008). Population representation in the military services: Fiscal year 2006. Washington, DC: Department of Defense. (Primary authors: Handy, K., Gribben, M.A., & Ramsberger, P.F.) (FR-06-48).

Sticha, P.J., Ingerick, M.J., Handy, K., Ramli, M., Fur, D., Buede, D.M., & Mahoney, S.M. (2008). Apollo-DI personality, cultural, and modeling enhancements (FR-08-09). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Wise, L. L., Taylor, L. R., Becker, D. E., Gladden, F. B., Handy, K., Thacker, A. A., Schultz, S., Willison, S., & Dean, J. (2007). Development of performance level descriptors for the California Standards Tests (CSTs) and the High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) (TR-07-01). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness (2007). Population representation in the military services: Fiscal year 2005. Washington, DC: Department of Defense. (Primary authors: Handy, K., Gribben, M.A., & Ramsberger, P.F.) (FR-06-48).

Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness (2006). Population representation in the military services: Fiscal year 2004. Washington, DC: Department of Defense. (Primary authors: Handy, K., Gribben, M.A., & Ramsberger, P.F.) (FR-06-48).

Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy). (2005). Population representation in the military services: Fiscal year 2003. Washington, DC: Department of Defense. Primary authors: Gribben, M.A., Sticha, P.J., Handy, K., & Ramsberger, P.F.)

Moore, C. (The Lewin Group) Handy, K. & McCloy, R.A. (2005) Qualified military available: New estimates of the eligible youth population. Falls Church, VA: The Lewin Group.

Medsker, G.J., DiFazio, A.S., Handy, K. McCloy, R.A., & Knapp, D. J. (2003). U.S. Army foreign language recruiting initiative (FLRI): Midterm evaluation (IR-03-54). Alexandria, VA : Human Resources Research Organization.

Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy). (2003). Population representation in the military services: Fiscal year 2001. Washington, DC: Department of Defense. (FR-03-20). Primary authors: Gribben, M.A., Sticha, P.J., Handy, K., & Ramsberger, P.F.)

Sticha, P.J., Dall T. (The Lewin Group), Handy, K., Espinosa, J. (The Lewin Group), Hogan P.F. (The Lewin Group), & Young, M. (ARI) (2003) Impact of the Army Continuing Education System (ACES) on Soldier Retention and Performance: Data Analyses (FR-03-14). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

McCloy, R.A., Handy, K., George, C.E., DiFazio, A.S., & Knapp, D.J. (2002).

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Army foreign language recruiting initiative (FLRI): Pre-pilot analyses (FR-02-33). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Handy, K., & Ramsberger, P.F., (2002). Career exploration program, high school counselor survey methodology (FR-02-24). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Lightfoot, M.A., Burnfield, J., Sipes, D.E. (Sunny), Handy, K., & Sun, S. (2001). Effective use of resources pilot design: streamlining the work process (FR-01-46). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Sticha, P.J., Handy, K., & Kowal, D.M. (2001). Predicting policy decisions: model development and validation report (FR-01-45). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Handy, K. (2001). Women in the Israeli Defense Force: History and culture. Wilmington, DE: Griffon House Press.

Sticha, P.J., DiFazio, A.S., Dall, T.A., Handy, K., & Heggestad, E.D. (2000). Impact of the Army continuing education system (ACES) on soldier retention and performance (FR-00-49). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Burnfield, J.L., Handy, K., Sipes, D.E., & Laurence, J.H. (1999). Moral character enlistment standards: Documentation, policy, and procedure review (FR-WATSD-99-59). Alexandria, VA: Human Resources Research Organization.

Richards, A., & Handy, K. (1995). Veterans and Decision-Making. In D. Rhoades (Ed.), The legacy of Vietnam veterans and their families: Survivors of war. Washington, DC: US GPO.

Handy, K. (1999, February). Shaping the U.S. combat exclusion debate. Presentation at International Studies Association 1999 Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Handy, K. (1998, November). Shaping the U.S. combat exclusion debate. Presentation at the 30th Annual International Studies Association/North East and Northeastern Political Science Association Joint Conference, Boston, MA.

Handy, K. (1999, September). Myths and military culture: Women in the IDF. Presentation at 94th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Handy, K. (1997, November). Indo-Pakistani conflict patterns in Kashmir: Implications for existential deterrence. Presentation at 29^th Annual International Studies Association, North East and North East Political Science Association Joint Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Handy, K. (1997, November). Bombs or babies, soldiers or saints: Public opinion and women's capacity in the U.S. military. Presentation at 29^th Annual International Studies Association, North East and North East Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Handy, K. (1996, November). Mexican sovereignty in the face of the foreign investment provisions of NAFTA. Presentation at 28^th Annual International Studies Association, North East and North East Political Science Association Joint Conference, Boston, MA.

Handy, K., Partridge, K., & Harris, L. (1993, August). Dissident feminist voices: rethinking our relationship with the land, with Mormonism, with each other. Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT August 1993.