Developed strategy to maximize the productivity of hundreds of relational organizing volunteers for Beto O’Rourke’s gubernatorial race; managed a team of 6 fellows and 1 staffer to make hundreds of calls a day, providing volunteers with personalized consultation

Served as primary contact person for the press; wrote dozens of press releases and kits for local and national networks

Spearheaded communications initiatives, creating messaging guides for partners and content for all social media accounts (Twitter impressions increased >150%, and Facebook engagement >385%)

Created and ran the program to help thousands of volunteers leverage the power of existing communities and relationships: managed a team of 120 interns and wrote comprehensive guides for future campaign useUsed experiential data to constantly iterate and optimize work Established the foundation of the Reach app, hosting 5200+ users Wrote instructions, scripts, push notifications, emails, and text campaignsOrganized and hosted events with high-profile guests (coordinating with their publicity teams for event promotion) and an average attendance of >300 people Identified >80 community leaders in low-turnout neighborhoods through data collection and analysis

Organized the Southern and Eastern towns of Onondaga County in a red-to-blue district for Dana Balter for Congress. Trained and managed 8 fellows in event management and recruitment Recruited, trained, and managed volunteers to make >29,000 manual dials to voters (≈1450 shifts), and to complete >240 autodialer shifts. Met/exceeded most weekly goals.Held >30 1:1 meetings with community leaders.

- Recruited, managed, and trained >350 volunteers to complete >550 volunteer shifts.- made >3,150 personal recruitment dials during 3 week GOTV effort.- Led 3 online relational organizing and policy trainings (“friendbanks”) daily, training 20+ volunteers per session. Trained volunteers on how to speak persuasively about the candidate and policy issues, how to use the reach app, and led a guided brainstorm for relational targets. -Confirmed attendees for both friendbanks and phonebanks. Contacted 3x (email call and text message) >150 volunteers daily.

Researched legislation and policy in New York’s 17th congressional district. Communicated with policy groups.

Extracted, sequenced, and analyzed DNA to identify new species of coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia)Learned and implemented bioinformatics softwareCollected data to inform policy-makers on the expansion of marine sanctuary boundaries named Regeneron STS Scholar for a research paper regarding this work