fINEQUITY
Background
Through hackNY's summer of social good initiative, I started working with fINEQUITY, an early-stage organization dedicated to providing financial literacy to those impacted by incarceration. Program participants would receive lesson modules, fill them out, and send them back to be graded and advance forward. However, the workflow designed for employees to manage participants, modules and mailing state involved manually updating spreadsheets, which was time-intensive, human error-prone, and infeasible with scale.
Solution
My team and I built a web dashboard to manage users and their mail in a more streamlined and cost-efficient way. We needed the solution to practically run for free, so we used Serverless framework as well as the Airtable API to get around having no server and database. We then built an Express server to expose functional endpoints to our frontend. We built and designed the frontend so it supported user-specific workflows, like batch mail sending, filtering by status, etc.