Director of Economic Research for the Economic Committee of the Sunshine Forum, where I lead students in developing policy proposals and writing bills that will meet the standards of Florida State Legislature, both legal and political. One bill I personally and individually wrote on the introduction of a category of housing designation known as "abandoned real property" to the Florida Statutes as a means of expediting foreclosure in blighted and dilapidated areas of the state was accepted by a… Show more Director of Economic Research for the Economic Committee of the Sunshine Forum, where I lead students in developing policy proposals and writing bills that will meet the standards of Florida State Legislature, both legal and political. One bill I personally and individually wrote on the introduction of a category of housing designation known as "abandoned real property" to the Florida Statutes as a means of expediting foreclosure in blighted and dilapidated areas of the state was accepted by a supermajority of members in the Sunshine Forum and is currently stored for introduction in the Florida Legislature's 2023 Session. Show less

Part-time research fellow helping to write a paper critically evaluating the validity of the Resource Curse within oil-producing Subsaharan Africa, entitled 'Paradox of Plenty or Oil Blessing? Counterfactual Evidence from Africa'. My work has included:-Compiling various data sets into CSVs from across international organizations for developmental indicators such as HDI, GDP PPP per capita and controls for institutional capacity and geography-Helping to merge various incongruent datasets… Show more Part-time research fellow helping to write a paper critically evaluating the validity of the Resource Curse within oil-producing Subsaharan Africa, entitled 'Paradox of Plenty or Oil Blessing? Counterfactual Evidence from Africa'. My work has included:-Compiling various data sets into CSVs from across international organizations for developmental indicators such as HDI, GDP PPP per capita and controls for institutional capacity and geography-Helping to merge various incongruent datasets through Python into a single document-Cleaning and updating missing/incomplete data for all 43 treatment cases-Researching methods in Amelia II to fill missingness through multiple imputation-Reading and summarizing dozens of recently outputted academic works on the resource curse-Aiding to write part of the final paper, including significant contributions to the literature review on the highly-variant conclusions drawn by different scholars of the resource curse-Presenting our paper and findings on panels at the annual conferences for the Midwest Political Science Association and the Florida Political Science Association Show less

Work as a part-time paid research assistant in the Center for European Studies in data analysis and program development. My work experience includes:-Organizing all 269 European bills that eventually resulted in passed legislation from 1999 to 2004 pulled from EUR-Lex and collecting their companion outcome regulations and directives-Converting hundreds of unwieldy PDF documents lacking EOF markers into text files importable to R utilizing code written in Zsh-Writing code in R and… Show more Work as a part-time paid research assistant in the Center for European Studies in data analysis and program development. My work experience includes:-Organizing all 269 European bills that eventually resulted in passed legislation from 1999 to 2004 pulled from EUR-Lex and collecting their companion outcome regulations and directives-Converting hundreds of unwieldy PDF documents lacking EOF markers into text files importable to R utilizing code written in Zsh-Writing code in R and cmd to pair off the randomly-organized text files of bills and outcome legislation and automatically change their European legislative codes into paired names with potential for marking additional legislative variables-Writing a custom-made plagiarism detection software in R using the Speedreader and Ngram packages to assess the agenda setting power of the European Commissions right of legislative initiation from the 538 text files fed into the program, accounting for varying n-gram sizes and generating a robust output of similarity scores for use in future papers-Building creative methods to graphically display and effectively communicate results through methods such as sequence matching, frequency plots, dice coefficient tables, and estimate plots in R-Further refinement of overall methods/software and qualitative research is ongoing Show less

I spent the Spring 2023 semester in Portugal as a full-time student trainee working under former European Court of Justice judge and advocate general José Luís da Cruz Vilaça and other top EU competition and human rights lawyers in Lisbon. Work included:• Researching diverse casework on European Union regulatory law and economics in topics ranging from ESG to the Foreign Subsidy Regulation• Composing internal policy briefs and external newsletters on ECJ cases, European Court of Human… Show more I spent the Spring 2023 semester in Portugal as a full-time student trainee working under former European Court of Justice judge and advocate general José Luís da Cruz Vilaça and other top EU competition and human rights lawyers in Lisbon. Work included:• Researching diverse casework on European Union regulatory law and economics in topics ranging from ESG to the Foreign Subsidy Regulation• Composing internal policy briefs and external newsletters on ECJ cases, European Court of Human Rights cases, and recently published internal market regulations for use in client casework, doing limited translations from Portuguese• Covered various document review responsibilities, ranging from the collection of legal resources for cases handled by lawyers within the office to reviewing documents for accuracy before finalization• Frequently compiled implementing EU legislation across all 27 European member states, as well as wrote reports detailing the different manners in which EU directives and regulations applied Show less

Intern for the Simon Wiesenthal in New York City, working with a government office to hone interpersonal communication skills and receive a more complete understanding of government function. Interns were given the opportunity to hear from and speak with leading experts in fields from lobbying to hate crime prevention.

Legislative and budget intern for the office of Deputy Speaker of the New York City Council Diana Ayala of District 8 in East Harlem and Mott Haven, handling a wide variety of tasks, including:-Management of discretionary budget allocations and the delivery of member award letters to recipient organizations-Writing of quotes and statements for use by the Deputy Speaker in press releases and conferences-Organization and writing of the weekly newsletter and biannual mailer to inform… Show more Legislative and budget intern for the office of Deputy Speaker of the New York City Council Diana Ayala of District 8 in East Harlem and Mott Haven, handling a wide variety of tasks, including:-Management of discretionary budget allocations and the delivery of member award letters to recipient organizations-Writing of quotes and statements for use by the Deputy Speaker in press releases and conferences-Organization and writing of the weekly newsletter and biannual mailer to inform constituents of the Deputy Speaker's work-Management of packing and movement of constituent drives to provide crucial supplies around District 8, including COVID-19 tests, facemarks, backpacks, and other goods-Analysis and compilation of legislative proposals from the Deputy Speaker for scheduling of hearing dates within appropriate New York City Council committees-Creation of social media posts and fliers posted to the Deputy Speaker's social media Show less

Participated in a competitive introductory research program surrounding the design of a survey to gauge political opinions of students on the campus of the University of Florida. Work included the design of ethical survey questions for usage that passed the inspection of the Internal Review Board (IRB). After the application of the survey, my personal research involved using an econometric linear regression to gauge the relationship between student family income levels and political attitudes… Show more Participated in a competitive introductory research program surrounding the design of a survey to gauge political opinions of students on the campus of the University of Florida. Work included the design of ethical survey questions for usage that passed the inspection of the Internal Review Board (IRB). After the application of the survey, my personal research involved using an econometric linear regression to gauge the relationship between student family income levels and political attitudes towards democracy. I presented these findings at the Bob Graham Research Forum in April. Show less