Sonia Barbosa photoSonia Barbosa is the Associate Director of Dataverse Support, Data Curation, and the Murray Archive.

Her responsibilities include developing and promoting the use and benefits of the Dataverse Software and outreach and acquisitions of data for the Harvard Dataverse Repository. Sonia leads training on data curation and consults with users on organizing, cleaning, and preparing data for sharing and preservation, and provides curation support and guidance for users of  the tool.

Sonia also manages the data housed at the Murray Archive, a human  subjects social science data archive housing longitudinal data on the lives of women. She is responsible for curation of the collection, preservation of data related to the archive, and data processing and dissemination.

Sonia works closely with the Dataverse development team to increase awareness of the needs of the research community and provides usability feedback on the Dataverse features. She has over 27 years of data curation and management experience in the social sciences. She holds a BA in Psychology with a concentration in African American Studies from the College of the Holy Cross, 1995, and a BSN from Simmons College, 2009. 

See Sonia's linked-in profile for more information on collaborations, publications, and  presentations: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniamariabarbosa/