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Washington DC-Baltimore Area

New York, New York, United States

• Managed the magazine’s unsolicited submissions inbox by recording all submissions in Google Sheets, responding to all inquiries, and forwarding along promising stories to the editorial staff for additional review, and.
• Fact-checked over 15 articles for the online and print magazine, ranging from book reviews, history-based, current events, and investigative style pieces
• Conducted archive work of the magazine’s issues from the 1970s and recorded discrepancies from the magazine’s website in Google Sheets for future updates
• Worked alongside editorial staff by helping write article titles, Instagram posts, and selecting pull quotes, and images for the magazine’s online and print articles
• Attended regular meetings with editorial staff, and offered story ideas, themes, and potential writers for future online and print articles

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Reported on abuse and medical neglect at a halfway home project in Durham, North Carolina requiring document analysis, corroborating information from sources with state officials, and interviews on record, on.
• Conducted several interviews for an oral history project on worker center organizing with distinguished worker center organizers for the Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson’s project on the history of worker centers
• Scheduled social media posts for a daily average of 5 new articles a day across Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, catering to each platform’s audience, writing over 800 posts across all platforms for the internship’s.
• Fact-checked articles for the print magazine, and long-form web articles. Notably, including two investigative pieces: one pertaining to worker abuses in a COVID test kit making facility and the other on eviction.
• Attended professional development sessions with the senior staff learning about the magazine’s operations and how to apply the lessons beyond the scope of the internship for a career as a freelancer or at future.

• Contacted union members to conduct wellness calls and provide essential resources during the immediate aftermath of COVID-19
• Recorded data from phone calls and wrote daily reports for the MRCC’s political director that would be used for the future outreach strategy
• Coordinating with the campaign managers of state-level political campaigns to develop and implement a digital campaign strategy

East Lansing, Michigan

• Serve 15-20 hours each week with residents as a resource for academic, professional, and social growth.
• Organize neighborhood social events by reaching out to fellow residence hall colleagues, student governments, and other university organizations to promote interculturalism with an emphasis on social justice. The.
• Cultivate students’ academic and social success by facilitating and co-facilitating 36 weekly Round Table Discussions with a community of 30-40 regular attendees.
• Fostered an interculturally competent community, 200+ residents, through community programming.

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

• Volunteered a minimum of 10 hours each week holding weekly campus canvassing and relational organizing events on campus, collecting over 1000 unique voter IDs and training over 70 student volunteers.
• Attended rigorous organizing training programs and learned the skills of direct voter contact, voter persuasion, recruitment, how to create a campaign plan, relational organizing, event planning, and volunteer.
• Worked directly with campaign staff to implement program strategy on Michigan State University’s campus and represent the campaign in the larger East Lansing community.

Lansing, Michigan

• Conducted legislative research for the Representative’s committees and prepared materials for briefings with affiliated groups and party officials resulting in a successful first year in office with 373 bills.
• Drafted detailed policy memos to help prepare and inform the Representative for legislative sessions and collaboration with their colleagues.
• Wrote and sent over 200 emails responding to constituent concerns and detailed each interaction on a case management software.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Selected for a nationally competitive professional development program with a focus on developing skills in public scholarship; the intersection of policy research, advocacy, and grassroots activism.
• Wrote three articles in the economic justice publication, Inequality.org, “What Medicare for All Would Have Meant A Decade Ago”, “Airline Catering Workers Connect Poverty Wages to Corporate Greed”, and “A Bus Tour.
• Researched the latest social movements pertaining to economic inequality and labor activism to help the editor evaluate timely articles for the website.
• Assisted with fact-checking and SEO optimization tools on WordPress.org to publish web articles for the website on a short turnaround.
• Developed a workshop with a team of five for the Institute for Policy Studies staff on Puerto Rico, Climate Justice and Decolonization.

East Lansing

• Supported First-Year Students in their transition to James Madison College and Michigan State University by inviting my mentee and other first-year students in the cohort to college hosted events.
• Encouraged successful academic and personal development by conducting monthly one on ones and delivering information on available resources within the residential college and the university at large.

East Lansing, Michigan

• Served as a liaison between the museum and guests to foster exhibit accessibility by giving mini-tours of 24 different exhibits over the year pertaining to minimalism, modernism, pop art, and other contemporary subjects.
• Researched current and upcoming exhibits to synthesize information for guests about the historical and social context of the exhibits on display.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Social Relations And Policy

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Relations And Policy

Advanced Independent Study

I participated in a semester-long course with nine other students called Election 20XX, where we focused on bringing marginalized youth.

Education record

I attended Muskegon Community College my first semester of college to take general ed. courses.

Education record