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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, United States

Oakland, California, United States

• Initiating interviews to prepare clients for tax preparation process• Used Mandarin and Cantonese speaking skills to communicate with non English speaking clients• Contributed to a joint accumulation of 1300 tax returns filed in the Bay Area • Contributed to team effort of around 2 million dollars in refunds towards low income families • Emphasized the importance of savings, changing the lives of many.

Oakland, California, United States

• Initiated interviews with clients to gather information regarding tax filing • Used Mandarin and Cantonese literacy to translate for non english speaking families• Interviewed and organized incoming clients into an efficient tax preparing process • Helped to file several basic tax returns for clients • Contributed towards raising over a million dollars in tax refunds to low income families in Bay Area

Oakland, California, United States

• Initiated interviews with clients and gathered documents for tax preparation • Used Mandarin and Cantonese speaking skills to communicate with non-english speakers• Submitted ~50 tax files to be prepared virtually, combating the pandemic• Contributed to a joint accumulation of over one million dollars in Tax Returns

Alameda County, California, United States

• Managing a district of 7 AYOUTH chapters on the East Bay• Organizing influx of volunteers towards fundraising & distribution events• Impacting hundreds of unhoused individuals across various locations in Oakland

El Cerrito, California, United States

• Organized and created a charter chapter system that connects schools across the bay area.• Expanded the non profit organization to 8 high schools in the east bay. • Conducted distribution events to unhoused communities in Oakland, California. • Participated in fundraisers to raise money for AYOUTH AYOUTH's chapter system is implemented throughout various high schools in the Bay Area. Beginning with the first chapter at El Cerrito High School being unofficially founded in June of 2024, followed by the second chapter at San Leandro High School, and many more. Chapters throughout these various high schools help contribute to both the distribution and donation effort by spreading awareness in their communities.

Oakland, California, United States

• Contributed to the foundation of AYOUTH with 2 High School Students from El Cerrito High SchoolAYOUTH is a non profit organization founded by a dedicated group 3 high school students that are committed to making a difference in the Bay Area. AYOUTH works towards providing necessities such as clothing, hygienic products (toothbrushes, floss, toothpaste, etc), blankets, and more for the unhoused, and our mission is to directly distribute them to unhoused communities throughout the Bay Area.

Palo Alto, California, United States

Research fellow under Irving Weissman's Lab at Stanford School of Medicine, which studies the identification, isolation, and function of normal and cancer stem cells, including the lineage of their precursors and progeny, and the phylogeny of stem cells in colonial protochordates. Conducted research that specifically studied the behavior and functionality of Long-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cells within a three dimensional cell cultrex system, coupled with various growth factor treatments and conditions.• Learned to culture cell systems and practiced various methods of wide field and confocal immunofluorescent imaging, staining, and analysis.

South San Francisco, California, United States

A part of the 2024 SPARKS Cohort based at Stanford School of Medicine. Conducting research on the behavior of cells around hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow organoids at Irving Weissman's Lab, while simultaneously promoting stem cell research through various methods of media.

Emeryville, California, United States

Intern at Berkeley Lab and The Joint BioEnergy Institute, focusing on research to isolate, characterize and identify strains of bacteria that produce cellulase, and identify the gene so that the digestion of cellulose to glucose can contribute to the manufacturing of biofuels. • Learned to work with a sterile workspace, gained skills with PCR, pipetting, centrifuging, media preparation, incubating, inoculating bacteria, petri dish making and storing, bacteria streaking, DNS Staining, Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Sequencing, and Congo red assay staining. • Presented discoveries to Biological Systems & Engineering annual meeting.