Maria Kovell – Page 2 – Counter Tools

About Maria Kovell

Maria began her public health career at the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County, Ohio in 2006. From startups to local governments in the U.S. and abroad, Maria has led teams through the implementation of behavior change strategies to improve health outcomes. Maria earned her Master of Public Administration from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She enjoys sending snail mail, mediating for the Baltimore Community Mediation Center, and being outside with her kids.

Getting to Know Your Place Using Data

Happy Thanksgiving! In this post, Project Director Marielle Matthews is ravenous for Census data. I’ve always been captivated by Census data. Attempting to count every person everywhere in the United States and Puerto Rico?! That’s daunting. Even though carrying out such a massive data collection project [More]

By Maria Kovell|2021-08-05T16:39:06-04:00November 20, 2018|Categories: Data|

Reflections on Place and Safety

Last weekend, the US saw the worst mass murder of Jewish people in its history with a shooting at the Tree of Life Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Just days before, a man in Kentucky shot and killed two black men at a grocery store [More]

By Maria Kovell|2019-03-18T17:18:32-04:00November 2, 2018|Categories: Health Equity|

My Place: The Stories that Speak the Loudest

"My Place" is a series of blog posts authored by the Counter Tools team that aims to shed light on the impact place has had on each of our lives. In this inaugural My Place post, we hear from Senior Project Director, Charla Rios (Hodges). Being [More]

By Maria Kovell|2021-08-05T16:41:44-04:00September 20, 2018|Categories: Data|