• Draft legislation and engage in advocacy to advance the policy agenda of two sister nonprofits. • Build and manage relationships with more than 150 congressional offices and numerous other nonprofits.
• Built and update database of all persons/entities sanctioned by Western countries for Iranian human rights abuses.• Recommend targets for human rights sanctions and provide recommendations to the U.S. and foreign governments.• Organize and facilitate briefings for congressional officials. • Write and edit research reports and statements on extremist groups, Iranian human rights violations, and Iranian hostages.

Researched, wrote, collaborated with other fellows, and took courses with leading scholar-practitioners on national security, economics, and other public policy issues.

• Responsible for Middle East and United Nations portfolios.• Drafted, edited, and negotiated legislation—directing numerous measures to passage—covering Iran and Syria sanctions, Israel, foreign-affairs authorizations and appropriations, human rights, U.N. reform, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, Palestinian Authority funding, and the International Criminal Court. 
• Researched and analyzed news and emerging threats and opportunities; drafted background, advisory, and decision memos; planned and executed hearings, briefings, and other events.• Developed and executed strategic plans and built coalitions of members of Congress, advocacy groups, and other outside stakeholders to advance the chairman's legislative agenda.• Oversaw U.S. and U.N. programs and funding by scrutinizing executive branch congressional notifications and budget requests, questioning administration officials at briefings, directing U.N. reform initiatives, and investigating U.N. transfers of U.S.-origin technology to North Korea and Iran.• Wrote and edited op-eds, press releases, talking points, social-media posts, letters, and other communications.• Managed junior staffer and interns.

• Managed constituent mail process, drafting letters on a variety of topics and gaining knowledge of diverse issues, and eliminating long mail backlog preceding my tenure. • Covered foreign affairs, housing, science, and space legislative portfolios; managed interns.