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Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Manage the design, implementation, facilitation, and execution of the Leaders Europe program inline with the mission of inspiring, empowering, and connecting leaders across civil society, business,and public sectors.• Design and lead community engagement efforts with a focus on outreach to historically marginalizedcommunities, local and national governments, non-profits, and activists.• Identify new and manage existing relationships with numerous program vendors, track RFPs,contracts, and payments, and seek advice from partners invested in the Leaders Europe program aswell as the Obama Foundation overall.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• Work collaboratively across multi-functional teams to formulate policy positions and analyze EU policies.• Research economic and political events, collect data, and write activity reports to elevate messages for policymakers and the media.• Conduct policy and media monitoring, social listening, and creating media reports. Prepare weekly communications calendars and newsletters concerning different policy areas leading to increased issue awareness among policymakers.• Create content for clients’ social media platforms in relation to relevant policy, economic, and governmental events globally. Leveraged social media marketing to increase subscribers by 55%.• Pitch, prepare, implement, and manage campaign communications and plan related media relations events.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Worked with the Foreign Policy Instruments team at the Delegation to create, implement, and monitor EU-funded policy programs with the goal of promoting and protecting bilateral relations and achieving Europe 2020 strategies.• Drafted multi-million euro grants for civil society actors and evaluated grant proposals for compliance.• Planned in-person and digital events concerning Transatlantic relations, International Relations, and cultural diplomacy.• Established and maintained communication channels with recipients of EU-funding. • Produced content for communications campaigns showcasing impact of European companies in the post-COVID economic recovery efforts in the US.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Monitored news media and association channels for issues related to trade, tech, human rights, and congressional affairs• Wrote op-ed pieces for various clients to publish. Op-ed pieces crossed industries such as information technology, veteran’s affairs, aerial imagery and trade associations.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Summer Intern mentoring recently arrived refugee youth in Chicago. Prepared and led English and science lessons for children and socialized kids to life in America.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Master'S Degree, Public Policy

Dissertation: "The Relationship between Social Media and Public Policy: A case study of #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo." Conducted.

Education record

Exchange Student