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Rochester, NY, US

Rochester, NY

• Designed and conducted 3 mixed-methods research projects with budgets of $80,000-$275,000 on child and forced labor within the global supply chains, each of which resulted in reports designed to guide policy decisions.
• Provided guidance and research design input to clients, including senior-level staff, throughout all phases of the research project timeline.
• Consistently selected by senior team leadership to play the role of “relief pitcher” by stepping in to assist or take over studies that were not progressing as planned in order to get them back on track.
• Coordinated with project stakeholders – including client staff, outside consultants, and in-country subcontractors – to ideate research plans, develop research tools, manage research ethics review (IRB) process, meet.
• Conducted data cleaning, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, and/or visualization for 8 studies on forced and child labor using Stata, R, and Tableau.
• Conducted secondary research and completed literature reviews for 7 projects on forced and child labor in various countries and industries around the world.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Wrote and delivered curriculum for 30 undergraduate courses in Political Science, Political Theory, International Law, Legal History, and other related disciplines.
• Selected for top teaching award by department faculty two years in a row.
• Directed training of new graduate instructors.
• Wrote and delivered trainings on various aspects of teaching and professional development to all first-time graduate instructors and provided on-call teaching support to all grad instructors in department.
• Redesigned and implemented the department’s TA training program and represented the PoliSci department in collaborations with both the UCLA Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences and UCLA Center.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Designed and managed research projects on various topics in political science and international law, including: international human rights law, comparative constitutional design, the laws of war, international criminal.
• Invited to present original research at 18 conferences, symposia, and workshops.
• Published groundbreaking research on the use of universal jurisdiction to address crimes of international concern in the European Journal of International law, a top-tier peer-reviewed academic journal.
• Awarded over $200k+ in research funding through over a dozen competitive merit-based fellowships and grants.

Ithaca, New York Area

• Managed and conducted a research study on historical and contemporary implementation of points-based high-skilled immigration programs in 17 countries worldwide.
• Designed a legislative proposal for a progressive-leaning points-based system for the U.S. that, if adopted, would increase high-skilled employment-based immigration to the U.S. without any cuts to current immigration.
• Coordinated with various stakeholders – including senior faculty, university staff, guest speakers, and sponsors – to plan a two-day report launch event.
• Coordinated drafting press releases and op-eds placed in Forbes, The Hill, Univision, El Diario, La Opinion, and other national and regional outlets.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science And Government

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Master Of Arts - Ma, Comparative Literature

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy, Humanities