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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Contributed to a legal publication focused on financial services law (specifically about issues concerning superannuation and KiwiSaver) alongside Senior Lecturer Victoria Stace. Key tasks included legal research, proofreading and NZ Law Style Guide-compliant editing.

Auckland, New Zealand

Leads 7 passionate young people and facilitates meetings to advise ProCare's equity and executive leadership team on their Population Health Strategy to improve health outcomes for the 530,000 children and young people across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Contributed to the creation of the Health and Care Worker Policy Lab (in collaboration with the World Health Organization). This initiative consolidates international legal standards into a single resource, providing an accessible snapshot of the rights afforded to health and care workers across WHO member states. Key tasks included comparative legal research, statutory interpretation, and report writing.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Auckland, New Zealand

One of a handful of high-achieving senior law students selected to provide specialist knowledge and expertise in the Faculty of Law's undergraduate tutorial programme for 'LAW 201: Criminal Law' in the 2023 academic year.In this role, I prepared for and delivered six 1-hour tutorials per fortnight on topics including hyper-incarceration, sentencing and actus reus. I also acted as a Judge for oral sentencing submissions based on a hypothetical methamphetamine offending scenario, and marked 108 student written submissions on this topic.

Auckland, New Zealand

One of a handful of high-achieving senior health sciences students selected to provide specialist knowledge and expertise in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences undergraduate tutorial programme for ‘POPLHLTH 111: Population Health' and ‘POPLHLTH 202: Research Methods in Health’ in semester 1, 2023.In POPLHLTH 111, I prepared for and delivered three 2-hour workshops per fortnight on topics including the basics of health research, age standardisation and ethnicity coding. I also marked seven assessments (including the final examination). In POPLHLTH 202, I prepared for and delivered one 1-hour tutorial per week on topics including framing effective health research questions, quantitative and qualitative research designs and the interpretation of statistics and data. I also marked four assessments (including the final examination).

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I was given the opportunity to participate in a short-term remote internship after winning the 2022 ADC-ICC Asia-Pacific Commercial Mediation Competition. During my internship, I conducted research into what the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) landscape looks like in Aotearoa New Zealand. I also conducted research into ADR best practices in environmental disputes in Africa and Latin America, which formed part of a research paper to be presented at the National Mediation Conference in Wellington in late 2023.

Auckland, New Zealand

One of three law students selected from across NZ to work in the Asia- Pacific product team to assist with developing various AI-based products. I also assisted the legal team on commercial matters as they arose.

Auckland, New Zealand

Attended monthly ADLS Committee meetings, provided invaluable student insight, and conducted ad-hoc work for the committee, such as research and the preparation of submissions on pertinent medico-legal issues in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand

One of a handful of high-achieving senior law students selected to provide specialist knowledge and expertise in the Faculty of Law's undergraduate tutorial programme for 'LAW 141: Legal Foundations' in semester 2, 2022.In this role, I prepared for and delivered four 1-hour tutorials per fortnight on topics including human rights, contracts and international law. I also marked 128 assignments across two assessments focusing on human rights and criminal law.

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Community Alcohol Harm Prevention Sub-Team (2022): Conducted pro bono legal research for groups like 'Communities Against Alcohol Harm'. Asylum Seeker Rights Sub-Team (2021): Conducted legal research and worked with like-minded practitioners and community groups to advocate for the rights of asylum seekers in New Zealand.

Auckland, New Zealand

Advised the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on New Zealand's health system reform and improved remote patient monitoring systems for vulnerable COVID-19 patients as part of the healthcare consulting team.

Auckland, New Zealand

Tutored numerous Auckland secondary school students studying English (Years 9, 10, NCEA Levels 1-3 and NZQA Scholarship) and History (NCEA Level 1).All of my students improved upon their grades compared to before I worked with them and qualitatively reported enjoying the subject more due to their tutoring experience.

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Assisted with project management and logistics for all of Velocity's events throughout 2021. These included the 2021 launch, innovation seminars and the 100k challenge. MC'd virtual innovation seminar #1 and the 100k challenge information session.

Auckland, New Zealand

Conducted legal research for the Director of Human Rights Proceedings in areas such as unlawful discrimination claims under the Human Rights Act 1993, domestic and international health data security issues, and interest claims on damages in the Human Rights Review Tribunal.Less

Auckland, New Zealand

Managed financial forecasting, logistics, fundraiser stewardship and communications for two major fun runs - Round the Bays Wellington & Auckland 2021, raising $80,000 and $35,000 for the Foundation, respectively.

Auckland, New Zealand

One of a handful of senior students selected to be part of the University of Auckland's inaugural 'Summer Start' programme. Summer Start is a six-week programme for school leavers who want to get a head start on their university studies and confidently transition to University ahead of their first full semester. As a Summer Start leader, I helped organise various events, including exam workshops, networking & well-being sessions, and social events (such as the end-of-programme event). I also gave a presentation on the various leadership and extra-curricular opportunities available at the University and the lessons learned from my leadership journey. In addition, I provided general pastoral support to the approximately 90 students in the programme and was a group leader/liaison for about 20 students in particular.

Auckland, New Zealand

Working in collaboration with Auckland Council to complete community research and create resources to help inform effective targeted intervention and deliver a range of initiatives to work towards achieving the Auahi Kore Hapori Whanui (action for smokefree communities) programme, in line with the Auckland Council Smokefree Policy and Implementation Plan 2017-2025. This will ultimately help Tāmaki Makaurau meet our national Smokefree 2025 target.

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Led 18-person executive amidst Covid-19 uncertainty, oversaw club financials, and created various social, academic, well-being, and professional development opportunities for students. The hard work we put in as a team during this time was recognised by receiving 'The Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences Club of the Year' at the annual University of Auckland Clubs Awards ceremony. During my time as President, I also co-founded the BHSc Student Advisory Group and was a member of the BHSc Board of Studies Committee, University Student Consultative Committee and University Students' Association Student Council.

Auckland, New Zealand

Supported the management and oversight of an 18-person executive committee and acted as liaison for executive members in charge of the social, welfare & academic and Māori & Pacific portfolios.

Auckland, New Zealand

Oversaw the branding and social media presence of the student association. This involved designing (or helping other executive members design) engaging social media content and managing the Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn pages.

Auckland, New Zealand

Translated complex internal health, safety and wellbeing policy documents into user-friendly resources for a bespoke digital onboarding platform for St John's 17,000 staff nationwide.

Auckland, New Zealand

1 of 20 tertiary students selected from across Aotearoa New Zealand, to be part of the 2019/20 Government Health and Safety Lead (GHSL) Summer Internship Programme based at the Ministry for Primary Industries. Interns were placed across various public sector agencies. I was placed in the health, safety and wellbeing team at Hato Hone St John. During my internship, I oversaw the planning, storyboarding, shooting and editing of three user-friendly health, safety and wellbeing induction videos for St John's 17,000 staff nationwide.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Appointed to organise and coach a four-person high school delegation to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the National Finals of the Evatt Competition 2019 in Brisbane in late November. For the very first time in UN Youth NZs history of competing in this competition, one of our teams made it to the finals (top 15 out of 30 teams), then received a highly commended award for their efforts during the final round, placing them in the top 5 teams out of the entire competition.

One of a handful of tertiary students selected from across the country, to be a part of the communications division of the UN Youth NZ National Operations Team.Supported the National Communications Officer by approving and helping with the creation of promotional material for regional, national and international events.Managed UN Youth New Zealand Facebook page.Managed UN Youth Global Citizenz Facebook Page.

Auckland, New Zealand

Elected as one of three general members onto the UN Youth Auckland Regional Council for 2018. Holding the Marketing & Public Relations portfolio, my main role will be to support the promotion/marketing managers on secondary and tertiary event committees, as well as continually developing the marketing and public outreach strategy for the Auckland region as a whole.

Proofread contracts, edited documents, and helped manage files for various domestic and international IT law transactions.

Auckland, New Zealand

Selected as a research assistant as part of the Summer Research Scholarship programme under the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland. Supervised by Dr Fiona Moir and Dr Marcus Henning as part of MHS218: “A Systematic Review of Peer-led Interventions for Mental Health in Secondary and Tertiary Students”.

Bachelor Of Health Sciences/Bachelor Of Laws (Honours) - Bhsc/Llb(Hons), Law And Population Health

Activities and Societies: ADC-ICC Asia Pacific Commercial Mediation, New Zealand Law Students’ Association, University of Auckland Mooting.

Professional Legal Studies

Education record

Activities and Societies: ICAS Examinations, Biology & Linguistics Olympiad, Brain Bee (North Island Finalist), NZs Next Top Engineering.