Maria Wasley-Valdez is the assistant director of prospect development at Texas State University where she also earned her Master’s in sociology. She has worked in prospect research and analytics for seven years and is a self-proclaimed data nerd. Prior to her role at Texas State, she worked at the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault and served on the board of directors for a local GLBTQIA+ scholarship fund. When she’s not diving into a data project, she can be found hanging out with her four cats and two dogs in the hill country of Central Texas.