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London, England, Gb

New York, United States

New York, United States

Currently working around the station on a more limited basis as an alumnus.Planned and broadcast various shows on-air across various genres. Highlight: closed out the last few hours of our Ryuichi Sakamoto Birthday Broadcast (2 months prior to his passing), celebrating his career from his early YMO days to his award-winning film scores to his solo work as an experimental musician and composer. Researched stories to share on air alongside many of the tracks, and included music inspired… Show more Currently working around the station on a more limited basis as an alumnus.Planned and broadcast various shows on-air across various genres. Highlight: closed out the last few hours of our Ryuichi Sakamoto Birthday Broadcast (2 months prior to his passing), celebrating his career from his early YMO days to his award-winning film scores to his solo work as an experimental musician and composer. Researched stories to share on air alongside many of the tracks, and included music inspired by his work on the playlist as well, in order to best celebrate his life and legacy.When working with the Library team, responsible for archiving and cataloguing existing collection of 10,000+ records, cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, and CDs. Additionally responsible for reorganizing the library and creating a new system to make music easier to find for our team of 50+ programmers, with plans to make a searchable digital database in the near future. Upon receiving donations of new music, work with department heads to decide where everything should go. Show less

New York, United States

Provide litigation support on client matters under the supervision of the firm’s attorneys. Assist in all aspects of support on litigation and sanctions-related matters, including editing and filing motions, notices, and briefs, as well as conducting general document review and research.

Morocco

Led the Water Quality Testing and Treatment team as part of a project for Columbia University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders to bring clean, potable water to a group of villages in Morocco. Researched, designed, and evaluated multiple filtration and storage methods for the pumped water. Designed sand filtration system capable of handling 23.5 kPa of pressure coming from a ferrocement tank made to hold 60,000 litres of water following revisions to original design to go beyond the bare… Show more Led the Water Quality Testing and Treatment team as part of a project for Columbia University's chapter of Engineers Without Borders to bring clean, potable water to a group of villages in Morocco. Researched, designed, and evaluated multiple filtration and storage methods for the pumped water. Designed sand filtration system capable of handling 23.5 kPa of pressure coming from a ferrocement tank made to hold 60,000 litres of water following revisions to original design to go beyond the bare minimum of international water quality standards, in response to results of in situ water quality testing conducted in Spring 2021. Coordinated with Professors at Cadi Ayyad University to perform water testing and maintenance remotely and established a long-term collaboration between our two groups with the end goal of publishing research together. Responsible for teaching new members about the history of our project as well as both water quality data analysis and the principles of water filtration and system management. Designed and led experimentation with the goal of understanding the relationship between sand grain size distribution and the flow rate of water in a slow sand filter, something poorly understood in the current academic literature. Represented the Water Quality Testing and Treatment team in weekly Morocco Board (MBoard) meetings and responsible for collaborating with other teams on long-term projects.Additionally served as Events Chair for all three CU-EWB groups on campus. Responsible for organizing events that reached out to people outside CU-EWB as well as events that promoted chapter bonding internally across the Morocco, Ghana, and Uganda teams. Coordinated co-sponsorships and joint events with other on-campus clubs and societies. Organized the annual Senior Dinner and prepared chapter-wide video/photo gallery for the Senior Dinner. Represented the Morocco team in weekly Executive Board (EBoard) meetings. Show less

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Co-hosted 3 literary events per week each involving high-profile academics, authors, publishers, and critics, averaging 50 in-person attendees and 35 online viewers and successfully leading to the sale of over 30 books per night. Organized end-of-year First Novel Fete, the Center's largest event, where the prestigious First Novel Prize is awarded.

New York, United States

- Facilitated weekly, 10-person fellowship with the goal of introducing students to the ideas of the Effective Altruism movement.- Organized around campus to help promote the growth of the club, increasing our organization's size from 10 to over 50 active members.- Curated the curriculum for weekly, 10-person effective environmentalism reading group and led discussions comparing various philosophies of environmentalism, particularly covering lesser-known ideas such as deep ecology… Show more - Facilitated weekly, 10-person fellowship with the goal of introducing students to the ideas of the Effective Altruism movement.- Organized around campus to help promote the growth of the club, increasing our organization's size from 10 to over 50 active members.- Curated the curriculum for weekly, 10-person effective environmentalism reading group and led discussions comparing various philosophies of environmentalism, particularly covering lesser-known ideas such as deep ecology, ecopedagogy, rewilding, green syndicalism, free market environmentalism, and spiritual ecology. Show less

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Collected and analyzed rare poems from Chilean poets in Columbia archives. Contributed work from 500 poets to database of 2,000 for use in a computational literary analysis algorithm on entire corpus of Chilean poetry from 19th century to the present to facilitate future research by enabling automated close-reading of texts.

New York, United States

One of 55 students selected for 10-week educational finance program, culminating in a stock pitch competition (placed 2nd). Presented stock pitch to Point72 Asset Management representatives, success led to addition of DPZ into HCG's portfolio. Presented monthly stock pitches to the investment board as part of the healthcare industry group.

New York, New York, United States

Worked alongside writer over the course of the semester to perfect an article on the neurological basis of alternative medicines. Revised weekly drafts and presented final drafts to a team of graduate students for review.Grey Matters CU strives to bring the Columbia community closer to neuroscience by facilitating the production of our first ever neuroscience magazine. Our unique approach of universality, accessibility, and mentorship is designed to make Grey Matters CU a publication… Show more Worked alongside writer over the course of the semester to perfect an article on the neurological basis of alternative medicines. Revised weekly drafts and presented final drafts to a team of graduate students for review.Grey Matters CU strives to bring the Columbia community closer to neuroscience by facilitating the production of our first ever neuroscience magazine. Our unique approach of universality, accessibility, and mentorship is designed to make Grey Matters CU a publication that anyone can contribute to and enjoy. Our goal is that Grey Matters Journal at CU will convey the interdisciplinary nature of science, especially neuroscience, to individuals outside of the STEM field. To this end, our journal is divided into concrete sections including but not limited to neuroscience and technology, neuroscience and health, neuroscience and public policy, neuroscience and art, etc.General Editors help authors strengthen and refine writing by providing feedback on grammar, word choice, article clarity and organization, and tone. General Editors are paired with an individual author and they work together towards improving and, ultimately, publishing a finely crafted article that explains a high-level neuroscience topic in a manner that can be understood by anybody with a background in high school biology. Show less

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Analyzed and interpreted COVID-19 data for South Africa's Free State Provincial Department of Health through the use of a variety of data science tools. Provided a local COVID-19 case count forecast to improve the allocation of government resources within each sub-district so as to better manage the public health crisis.Task Overview:1) Write a script to automatically generate an organized Data Quality Report based on weekly incoming COVID-19 data. 2) Build a machine learning… Show more Analyzed and interpreted COVID-19 data for South Africa's Free State Provincial Department of Health through the use of a variety of data science tools. Provided a local COVID-19 case count forecast to improve the allocation of government resources within each sub-district so as to better manage the public health crisis.Task Overview:1) Write a script to automatically generate an organized Data Quality Report based on weekly incoming COVID-19 data. 2) Build a machine learning model to accurately forecast COVID-19 cases and movement patterns in the Free State of South Africa.Final Deliverables:Processed, sorted and conducted feature engineering and generation on 50,000+ rows of government data to produce an 8-page Data Quality Report.Tested and compared accuracy of SES, LSTM, and ARIMA time series models in forecasting COVID-19 case count; ultimately selected and further tuned LSTM model.Using Google Data Studio, created a 2-page data visualization; page 1 provided a breakdown of the key takeaways of the data along with a graph of the model's forecasts while page 2 succinctly summarized the most important aspects of the Data Quality Report. Show less

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English

Also pursuing a concentration in Environmental Biology.

Data Science

6-week educational experience studying and interning in Data Science. Internship project received "Best Solution Award" (3 out of 23.

High School Diploma, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief of the Eagle Manifesto (School Newspaper), Student Ambassador Leader for the High School Student.