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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Formulate operational strategies to scale national campaign advocating for diversity, equity, & inclusion
• Built a bipartisan coalition comprised of 100+ national orgs. & 100+ former Cabinet members to advance impact
• Collaborate with government officials & non-profits to pass DEI legislation (e.g. PLUM Act with 10+ co-sponsors)
• Leverage analysis of demographic data across five administrations of political appointees to highlight disparities in government leadership representation (Published on POLITICO, CNN, & NYT)

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Pago Pago, American Samoa

The American Samoa Climate Action Network's mission revolves around raising awareness to the Pacific's environmental issues, empowering the next generation of Pacific youth to take action, and leveraging the status of US-Pacific territories to advance national policy discourse.So far, we've developed policy proposals in response to federal legislation.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Track the influence of money in politics and 10+ other social issues in order to encourage conscious consumption
• Develop indices to analyze the corporate social responsibility status of 500+ consumer-facing companies
• Strategize with CEO about potential organizational partnerships to expand scope of data
• Data analysis and research received media coverage (New York Times, Yahoo News, Swarthmore College Bulletin, etc.)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Selected to join the inaugural cohort of Harvard Law School's year-long pre-law fellowship aimed at empowering the next generation of legal scholars and leaders, particularly from underserved backgrounds.

New Haven County, Connecticut, United States

1 of 20 selected for the Public Voices Fellowship with The OpEd Project, in partnership with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. I'll be using this platform to release a series of op-eds highlighting environmental injustice and community resilience in the Pacific (with a focus on US-Affiliated Pacific Islands).

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States

• Work as an issue based ambassador for the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility for the areas of Environment & Sustainability
• Advise college students on how to connect their intellectual curiosity into engaged scholarship

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States

• Interview 100+ prospective undergraduates applying for the 2022-2023 application cycle to Swarthmore College
• Produce qualitative reports assessing student fit to contribute to the Admissions Office decision-making process
• Act as student ambassador to help students determine their interest in Swarthmore

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States

• Develop a consortium of universities (Drexel, UPenn, Cornell, etc.) to increase student engagement on global climate issues
• Hosted a student-moderated campus-wide event discussing the geo-political impacts of the Glasgow Climate Pact with guest panelists Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous.
• Selected to represent Swarthmore College at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland as one of five official delegates

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Research the intersections of climate change, migration, and children under the advisory of Professor Elizabeth Ferris of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration
• Conduct extensive literature reviews on good policy guidance and recommendations relating to climate mobility
• Support World Refugee and Migration Council's Task Force work on global & regional governance

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States

• Established the year-long fellowship's first project focused on researching traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous ways of knowing
• Researched and interviewed candidates for the Environmental Studies department’s new tenure-track position for a scholar of Environmental Humanities and Native American studies
• Built relationships with various indigenous community members at Swarthmore and beyond
• Laid the foundations for an Indigenous Environmentalism Lecture Series at Swarthmore College

American Samoa

• Collaborated with AS-EPA team to pass a legislative proposal to ban and limit expanded polystyrene products
• Determined eligible of eco-friendly, cost-effective food service alternatives for tax reduction incentives
• Produced a 20-page report and presentation which included a life-cycle assessment for expanded polystyrene products, comparison of similar proposed amendments, and an in-depth survey of constituent feedback
• Publicized research findings for local constituents, gov’t officials (including AS-EPA Director, Deputy Director, and Division Head), and private sectors

American Samoa

• Year 2
• Implemented regenerative agricultural techniques to help improve island food security, agro-industries, and water conservation efforts, while addressing climate change issues through soil carbon sequestration
• Spent 5 hrs/wk capturing plant data to analyze through precise multispectral imaging which enabled the extraction of vegetation indices
• Optimized agricultural yield, canopy coverage, and soil temperature conservation, through a no-risk climate solution with major economic and ecological co-benefitsYear 1
• Analyzed insecticidal potential of locally-sourced, plant-based solutions as an alternative to synthetic organophosphates
• Identified different aphid species, signs of infestations, and resulting plant diseases found on each plant for at least 5 hrs/wk

American Samoa

• Developed personalized learning plans to accommodate the diverse academic needs of 30+ students (3rd to 12th grade) and integrated worksheets to consolidate understanding of mathematical and grammatical concepts
• Used multilingualism to teach both struggling English-Language learners for 10+ hours each week
• Assisted students preparing for standardized tests (SAT, ACT, ASVAB, PSAT, & TOEFL) which successfully improved their overall scores
• Specialized in training students how to efficiently retain complex information by minimizing subvocalization and teaching the technique of perceptual expansion

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Policy (Concentration On Environmental Governance)

Activities and Societies: President's Sustainability Research Fellow (2+ Years) | Student Government Organization (Exec. Chair of Internal.

Stanford Junior Statesmen Of America (Jsa) Program, International Relations And Affairs

Awarded a full-ride scholarship by the US Department of Interior to study International Relations.

High School Diploma

Graduated as Class Valedictorian, and attained the highest SAT score in American Samoa. I spent high-school conducting research on the.