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I am a currently a PhD candidate at the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health where I research hospital-based violence intervention programs. My research interests lie at the intersection of community violence and public health, with an emphasis on engaging firearm violence as a determinant of individual and population health. Additional interests include the utilization of public health interventions to strengthen community resilience, reduce retaliatory violence, enhance criminal justice reforms, support refugee recovery from trauma, and mitigate the onset of civil war.Prior to entering the doctoral program, I completed a bachelor’s degree in Political Science at UC San Diego and a master’s degree in Peace and Justice Studies from the University of San Diego. After graduating, I served as an AmeriCorps VISTA working with Iraqi refugee youth and subsequently worked as a grant writer for San Ysidro Health, a federally qualified health center serving more than 94,000 low-income patients in San Diego County.My previous research includes a self-directed assessment of the peacebuilding effects of agricultural cooperatives in Burundi, as well as serving as the Senior Research Assistant on a federally-funded project investigating the scale and scope of street gang involvement in sex trafficking in San Diego.

Listed skills include Grant Writing, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Research, and 35 others.