Ellise Barker Email & Phone Number

Intern at the Georgia Tech Office of Legal Affairs. I conducted legal research and analysis for various teams within the office, including Student Life and Academic Affairs, Transactions and Trade Compliance, and Athletics. I attended weekly staff meetings and contributed to discussions on the legal issues that that the office was addressing. Additionally, I presented a semester-long project to the General Counsel's office with recommendations to update Georgia Tech's free speech policy based on research of other schools' policies and their handling of recent on-campus political activity.

Greet potential students and their families and provide detailed information about campus traditions, buildings, academics, and student-life to upwards of 50+ visitors in a positive and enthusiastic way.

Teaching Assistant for Political Process, an introductory course for public policy students. Gave writing and policy-based suggestions to a class of 30 students on their policy memo semester paper.

Work on a multidisciplinary team of researchers and students are building a Generative AI-drivencourt document summarization pipeline. The results will feed into the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse at the University of Michigan, which is the only free, public repository of documents and information from large-scale civil rights cases from across the United States. The site averages 30,000 monthly users, providing court data to support civil rights lawyering, activism, advocacy, and scholarship. The summarization pipeline will dramatically reduce the time and resource burden required to read, process, and summarize thousands of pages of court documents for posting on the Clearinghouse site.

Planned and coordinated on-campus campaign events, including weekly canvassing and phone banking, as well as working with other on-campus organizations to coordinate voter registration and outreach events.

Worked as a Senate Aide for four State Senators and assisted both the Senate Education and Youth and the Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committees in committee preparation, staffing, and policy tracking. Addressed constituent concerns over the phone and in-person in a polite and respectful manner. Kept up with the demands of a fast-paced work environment and tracked legislation for each of the four Senators spanning over countless committees and developed an in-depth understanding of the Georgia General Assembly legislative process

Assist administrative personnel and professors in providing photocopies and filing and work with Microsoft Excel to organize alumni lists and professor information to ease inter-departmental communications

Supervise a team of approximately 15 staff members throughout the entirety of shift, create staff schedules for dinner rush hours. Regularly train new staff, and hold team members to high standards of service while serving around 2,500 guests each night

Coordinated events throughout Georgia encouraging youth engagement in the US Senate runoff elections

Worked as a campaign staffer for a state senate Democratic campaign in North Georgia. Conducted legal and policy research on issues that directly affect the community. Oversaw phone and text banking campaigns while working closely with the leadership board to identify new outreach opportunities in the community and recommend improvements and/or changes to campaign social media accounts

Bachelor'S Of Science, Public Policy, Junior

Activities and Societies: Leadership Positions: Alpha Gamma Delta (2022-2023 Sustainability Chair, 2023-2024 Assistant Director.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: History Club (President), Student Government Association (President), ECHOstage (Drama Club), AP Scholar.