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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Create and lead interdisciplinary projects, workshops, and experiences, such as “Float the Vote”, “Building Inclusive Community”, and “Leadership and Movement”, challenging conventional thinking of the present in order to broaden creativity, spark fresh ideas, inspire action for the future.Provide creative ideation and project strategy to help grassroots organizations, start-up businesses, and burgeoning artists achieve their desired outcomes.Conduct advocacy research informed by qualitative methodologies and the art of “storysharing” to inform the project work the business engages in on behalf of partners and stakeholders.Develop community-based social networking tools focused on intentional human-to-human connection to support everyday people in networking themselves and their personal brands.

Traveled nationwide with the Leadership Experience and Development Conference, National Honor Society, and National Junior Honor Society State Summit Program to lead sessions helping students strengthen their leadership skills and understand the power of their impact through Global Citizenship.Facilitated workshops on effective and persuasive communication, project and team management, and social and digital media, as well as co-led college admission and scholarship application mock interviews successfully reaching nearly 2,000 middle-level and high school students annually.Collaborated with program leadership and fellow faculty consultants to design and plan original content, curriculum, and experiences for the annual state summit and LEAD conference programs.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Provided administrative support for Confluence by Atlassian to all company-wide business and technology teams seeking to create, organize, and discuss content all in one common platform.Collaborated with User Experience/Design and DevOps team members to keep the company’s appraisal management and title/tax content on its website up-to-date via Wordpress and Pantheon.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Recruited, trained, and managed volunteers to establish an infrastructure that allows for capacity building within the Detroit Brightmoor and Rosedale Park communities in support of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run.Managed and executed phone banks, canvasses, and voter registration drives, among several other activities to further raise political awareness.Planned special events to reach voters or engage with external groups for community mobilization.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Provided comprehensive copyediting and research to program staff, which resulted in two publications, Japan’s Global Diplomacy and Japan’s Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia.Tracked developments regarding Japanese politics, the US-Japan alliance, changes in the Northeast Asian region, and Japan's relations with its neighbors.Prepared an op-ed article on the rising population dilemma in Japan and explained my research findings with Stimson staff via formal presentation.

Los Angeles, California

Designed original content, curriculum, experiences, and networks specific to a pilot program known as the “Collegiate Identity Participation Model”, a college readiness effort informed by various research frameworks involving academic, cultural, human and social capital acquisition to support high schools students in their transition to postsecondary education.Planned the Partners for Success 2013 Spring College Fair for around 1,000 juniors from 12 high schools to attend and receive information from 100 admissions representatives pertaining to respective institutions.Established guidelines for a career investigation paper for ninth graders, designed a senior year application to prepare juniors for the transition into senior year, and led a Northern California college tour for 60 graduating seniors.

Master Of Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Thesis title: "Preserving Japan's 'Pacifist' National Identity: Historical Discourse & The Psychocultural Shame-Guilt Complex"

Bachelor'S Degree, Behavioral Biology & East Asian Studies

2010 President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts recipient