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Montgomery, AL, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Launched consulting practice to team up with Fulbright Program Advisors, administrators, and professors at HBCUs to establish a “Fulbright culture” and coach students toward successful applications.
• Reached out to 12 HBCUs with proposals, winning partnerships with 8 of them, including Tuskegee, Tennessee State, FAMU, XULA, Clark Atlanta, Hampton, Fayetteville State, and Morehouse.
• Delivered Zoom workshops, offered one-on-one mentoring and designed step-by-step guides on the application process for HBCUs.
• Evaluated multiple candidates while serving on FAMU and CUNY-Lehman's internal review committees.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Compiled comprehensive parole advocacy packet in preparation for representation of client before Alabama Parole Board
• Conducted intensive mitigation investigation for capital client that included making several visits to Alabama to speak to family members, gather court records, and learn more about client's childhood.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Conducted intensive mitigation investigation, performed legal and social science research, interviewed witnesses, made prison visits, developed case theories, and prepared sentencing memorandum in preparation for.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Assisted defense attorneys in violent crimes and habitual felon units with all aspects of representation for indigent clients during 10-week internship.
• Conducted legal research and reviewed discovery in support of clients’ cases.
• Accompanied supervisors on jail visits, bond/plea hearings, and individual client meetings.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Conducted legal research, regularly met with client, drew out case theory, and worked in small team to file complaint in federal district court alleging that ABCMR’s failure to consider substance use disorders a mental.
• Worked with Black Veterans Project and National Veterans Council for Legal Redress to litigate government’s FOIA responses alleging that they had conducted adequate searches for responsive documents showing racial.

• Worked with HBCU presidents, administrators, and advocates to develop ideas, programs, policies and initiatives that contribute to the resiliency and effectiveness of HBCUs.

Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

*Grant terminated 7 months early due to COVID-19 pandemic*

Sunnyvale, California, United States

· Compiled and analyzed data on company performance in the areas of Diversity, Volunteering & Community Service Philanthropy & Fundraising, Supply Chain Sustainability, Data Privacy, and Global Trade Compliance. · Assisted in developing NetApp’s first-ever Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, requiring interviews with stakeholders and.

• Took on the ambitious task of boosting fellow students’ engagement and success with the infamously challenging, math-heavy statistics/research methods course “Scope & Methods of Political Science.”
• Facilitated group workshops and individual study sessions 2-3 times per week on statistical analysis methods, R programming, and data analysis software tools.

Atlanta, GA

• Completed 900+ hours of teaching to classes of 20-30 at-risk students, as part of UPS’ philanthropic scholarship program aimed at empowering underserved communities throughout the Southwest Atlanta area.
• Increased test scores of 3rd and 5th graders by up to 12 percentage points (YoY), often leveling kids up a full grade while providing nonjudgmental support with humility and humor, as a sought-after mentor.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Spent 9 weeks as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Anna Fisher at Carnegie Mellon University
• Focused on a project aimed at how reading materials for beginning readers can be optimized to improve learning outcomes
• Collected, synthesized, and coded data that was used to create reading materials to maximize child literacy
• Utilized statistical platforms such as SPSS to analyze all results

Cambridge, MA

• Selected as 1 of 20 students from over 2,000 applicants to participate in the annual program.
• Took multiple official LSAT practice tests under simulated conditions in preparation for the official test.
• Met and networked with multiple deans, faculty members and professionals from Harvard Law School and the Advantage TestingFoundation
• Participated in multiple mock, law school clinics and classes, run through Harvard Law School

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Activities and Societies: Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Diversity Representative-Admissions.

Political Science And Government, 4.0, Valedictorian

Activities and Societies: Freshman 4.0, UPS Community Service Scholars, Morehouse Presidential Ambassadors (MPA), Alpha Lamba Delta.

Political Science

Selected as a Domestic Exchange Student for the Fall 2017 Quarter at Stanford University