Lead strategic and impact-focused communications projects for a membership organization and leading policy incubator. Academic communications; marketing and membership engagement; public policy projects related to democracy, environment, arts and culture, and international affairs.Promoted from term-limited fellowship to permanent staff role in July 2023. Remote from Oakland, CA as of July 2024.

Board engagement, membership engagement, and communications for the leading professional association for scholars in Asian American Studies.

Master's student in Public Humanities. Public history, urban histories, and Asian American histories.Fellowships at Brown Arts Initiative (2019-2020) and Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America (2018-2019).

Research assistant in early stages of award-winning exhibition at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum.Researched urban planning policy, immigrant foodways and restaurants, and food justice activism in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, 1950s – present. Used newspaper archives, urban planning manuals, supermarket trade publications, transcripts of congressional hearings, and more.

Supported all external and internal communications for San Francisco Bay Area-based philanthropic organization funding the arts, primary education, and research in chronic disease.

Provided programmatic and communications support for a variety of initiatives, including HIPGive, the organization's then-new crowdfunding platform.