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Taking a gap year in between junior and senior year to sing, travel, and perform domestically and internationally in prestigious 14-person a cappella group.

• Drafted two 4,000-word internal memos on the efficacy and legal, political, and social history of comprehensive magnet school programs in Kansas City, MO and Hartford, CT. Identified policy and communications recommendations. • Authored a factsheet that was disseminated to lawmakers and policy analysts summarizing polling on school integration for the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board. Wrote sample political messaging to discuss integration.• Authored an executive summary, press release, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn posts, and outreach email for the dissemination of a NCSD-supported research paper on the loss of Black teachers in the North post-Brown v. Board.

• Led and managed desk’s content balance, overseeing eight staff writers and several contributing reporters. • Coordinated and edited 7-10 stories per week on scientific research and public health advancements, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to journalistic standards.

• Organized five-day Minnesota tour that secured over $10,000. Coordinated housing & transportation for all members and negotiated financial contracts with clients. Assisted in securing additional domestic and international gigs.

• Spearheaded a cappella recruitment process, organized outreach events and evaluated auditions for over 70 singers. Oversaw communications with each applicant.• Designed and implemented new marketing and social media strategies, leading to increase in applicants.

• Directed and conducted 16-person a cappella group, leading over 100 performances across the United States and on tours on all six inhabited continents. Coordinated and organized rehearsals and individual coaching sessions.

• Edited and assisted in the development of several long-form journalism articles for politics-driven periodical, published four times per year.

• Developed, designed, and implemented original lesson plans on Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Weimar Germany, literary theory, and Khalid Albaih, among others. • Assisted in facilitating class discussions for IGCSE and IB literature and history courses for 12-18-year-old students.

• Developed, designed, and implemented two original courses for dozens of high school students: “Medea and Hedda Gabler: Feminism, Madness, and Self Preservation” and “Akira Kurosawa and Japanese Adaptation of William Shakespeare.”• Facilitated group discussions on lectures given by Yale professors on topics such as normative ethics, Brazilian modernism, Islamic architecture, Japanese cinema, and W.B. Yeats.

Contributed 10+ opinion columns on topics of my choice. Selected from an applicant pool of top youth writers in southeast Minnesota.