Mallory has worked in the public health field since 2009, with positions in university, health department, and community-based nonprofit settings. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and gender and women’s studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Public Health in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked for multiple organizations in Chicago, including serving as an HIV test counselor with The Night Ministry where she conducted street- and shelter-based outreach and HIV/STI testing with LGBTQ youth and individuals experiencing homelessness, and working at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) where she provided support for capacity-building activities of the Chicago Female Condom Campaign and coordinated AFC’s statewide syringe disposal program. 

Her graduate training included core coursework in program planning, assessment, and evaluation, including the development of program logic models, evaluation plans, and data collection tools. During her time in Michigan, Mallory also deepened her research expertise by assisting with the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data at the Center for Sexuality & Health Disparities, with her time primarily dedicated to United for HIV Integration and Policy (UHIP), a mixed methods study examining structural factors impacting HIV vulnerability for Black and Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in the Detroit Metro Area. 

After finishing graduate school, Mallory completed a two-year fellowship program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she worked at the City of Milwaukee Health Department and a Milwaukee-based LGBTQ public health organization called Diverse & Resilient. As a Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellow, Mallory spent a large portion of her time coordinating community readiness assessments (CRAs) focused on LGBTQ health in Wisconsin, including multiple CRAs about LGBTQ student safety and support in local high schools.

Upon completing this fellowship, Mallory returned to Chicago and served as an Evaluation Project Coordinator at Northwestern University, where she provided individualized technical assistance to fifteen Chicago Department of Public Health-funded project sites working on twenty distinct HIV prevention interventions, each requiring their own evaluation plan and tools. For more than three years, she worked at Care2Prevent, the Pediatric/Adolescent HIV Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, first as the Manager of Community Health and, later, as the Interim Executive Director.

In 2019, she entered the public library world as the Manager of Data Analytics for the Oak Park Public Library, where she provided strategic oversight and technical assistance related to library-wide data collection, analysis, and visualization, in service of building the library system’s data culture and demonstrating the organization’s community impact. Mallory made the transition to working full-time for FSC in January 2022, and she has since worked with clients in both the public health and public library fields.

Skills

Public health competencies:
Program development, Program evaluation, Needs assessment, Community readiness assessment, Health education material development, Intervention/protocol manualization

Research:
Data analysis, Survey development, Focus group facilitation, Qualitative interviewing, Thematic analysis

Communication:
Data visualization, Grant writing, Report development, Training facilitation, Public speaking, Community outreach

Computer-based Proficiencies:
G-Suite (Looker Studio, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Drawings, Slides, Sites), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MacOSX, SPSS, NVivo, Alchemer, REDCap, Tableau, Online academic databases

Content Expertise

• Community health

• HIV/STI prevention

• Sexual & reproductive health

• LGBTQ+ health

• Harm reduction

• Public libraries

Presentations, Lectures, & Trainings

Edgar, M.; Jones, K.. Data Analysts: Unlocking the Mysteries of Your Library’s Data, Part II. Webinar offered via OrangeBoy, Inc. (August 26, 2020)

Edgar, M.; Program Development & Evaluation in Public Health. Guest lecture offered at The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (43012: Social Work’s Role in Ending the Domestic HIV Epidemic), Chicago, Illinois (April 4, 2017; April 3, 2018)

Edgar, M.; Greene, G.J.; Villamar, J.A.; Johnson, A.K.; Phillips, G.L. Building Evaluation Capacity at Diverse HIV Prevention & Care Organizations in Chicago: Preliminary Project Results and Reflections. Poster presentation offered at the Chicago LGBTQ Health and Wellness Conference, Chicago, Illinois (October 31, 2015)

Edgar, M.; salkas, s. The Community Readiness Model: A Program Planning Tool for Community Change. Pre-conference workshop offered at the Wisconsin Public Health Association Annual Conference, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (May 19, 2015)

Edgar, M.; Developing Safe & Supportive School Environments for LGBTQ Students: Results of a Community Readiness Project with Milwaukee Public Schools. Presentation offered at the Wisconsin LGBT Leadership Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (February 22, 2015)

Edgar, M.; Hollander, G. Creating Safe and Supportive High Schools for LGBTQ Students: A Series of Community Readiness Assessments with Five Milwaukee Public Schools. Poster presentation offered at the American Public Health Association’s 142nd Annual Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 17, 2014)

Edgar, M.; Fumo, N. Acceptance Journeys: Addressing Anti-Gay Discrimination and Improving LGBT Health Outcomes. Guest lecture offered at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (GCHB 6360: Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective), New Orleans, Louisiana (November 17, 2014)

Awards

LGBTQ 30 Under 30 Awardee, Chicago Windy City Times, Chicago, Illinois (2010).