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United States

Berkeley, Ca

Oakland, Ca

• Provide strategic consulting services to small businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social entrepreneurs across the United States and Latin America.• Specialize in program design, strategic planning, grant writing, financial sustainability, organizational management, and social policy innovation.• Oversee client outreach, management, and all business operations.

Stockton, Ca

• Led the planning and design process for the city’s historic guaranteed income demonstration.• Laid the programmatic foundation for SEED which included: establishing a recipient selection process, creating an impact evaluation strategy, and developing strategic partnerships with community stakeholders.• Represented SEED publicly in the popular press and at cross-city conferences and learning events such as CityLab: Mayor’s Innovation Studio on the Future of Work, Chicago Working Families Task Force, California Child Care Resource Referral Joint Network Conference.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Directed analysis of the study's qualitative data and co-authored the study's findings report. • Oversaw research activities in all of the Gap's participating Bay Area stores; managed a team of five store based research assistants, developed data collection tools and protocols, and conducted bi-weekly interviews and monthly focus groups with store managers and sales associates.• Managed study operations across three universities; tracking progress against project timeline and budget.• Led fundraising and grants management of an overall research budget of $1M.Previous positions include:Qualitative Data ManagerResearch Assistant

San Francisco Bay Area

• Conducted a consultant-based audit review of the process social enterprises use to compete for municipal contracts; identified key roadblocks, and presented strategic recommendations to improve outcomes.

Berkeley, Ca

•Taught weekly discussion sections to cohorts of 60+ undergraduate students per semester.•Developed weekly curriculum to promote critical discussion of course concepts. •Classes taught: "Contemporary Theories of Political Economy" & "The Ethics, Methods & Pragmatics of Global Poverty and Practice"

Medellin, Colombia

• Co-led the establishment of Grameen Foundation Colombia, the organization's first-ever Latin American field office• Oversaw product design and field implementation of a suite of field-based mobile applications to deliver financial and information services to rural, smallholder farmers• Facilitated solution design workshops with public and private sector partners. • Project managed the development of new mobile solutions and managed multiple dependencies across teams and external partners to deliver on-time deployments. • Grew annual regional programs budget from $300,000 to +$1.8 Million USD and expanded from two-person staff to a 20+ person team• Scaled mobile agriculture (m-Agri) services to 40,000 farming households regionally

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Lima, Peru

• Conducted hundreds of field interviews with rural loan recipients across Peru• Collaborated with loan officers and staff at Microfinanzas Prisma, a local microfinance institution dto develop operational goals for the rollout, use, and expansion of kiva.org• After my fellowship spent six months independently trekking through the Amazonas.

Chicago, Il

• Established donor and grant management systems during program’s early start-up phase• Oversaw office operations including budgeting, volunteer coordination and administrative support for the executive staff

Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, China, Korea, Japan

Chicago, Il

• Oversaw daily execution of the student-internship program• Liaised between corporate employers and student-employees to ensure strong student performance and employer satisfaction• Created first-ever annual student Career Fair to introduce students to potential professional and networking opportunities

Master Of Public Policy, Goldman School Of Public Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science & International Affairs

Foreign Exchange Student, Japanese Language And Politics

Received Asian Studies Scholar award for outstanding academic performance.