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• Utilize excellent writing and proofreading skills to deliver 3 engaging pieces of content published on the journal's website.• Interview multiple experts from across campus and over the world to complement my research process.• Coordinate with editors to pick relevant issues to write on along with an appropriate schedule for writing and editing.• Focus a portion of my publications and research to contemporary Egyptian politics and human rights issues.

• Drafted reports on the Copts of Egypt to be sent to States and non-governmental organizations, both domestically and internationally. • Record any cases of violence and discrimination against the Coptic minority. Research the legal basis on officially recategorizing the Coptic population as the indigenous ethnoreligious population of Egypt.• Organized and set meetings in the United Nations with Permanent Representatives from more than 15 member-states, observers, and regional organizations. • Spearheaded the official interventions at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

• Plan recurring media strategies to cover IRF-related news and events on three media platforms using Canva for designing.• Record all discussions during the weekly IRF Roundtable meetings to be sent as resource directories in the newsletter.• Assist the twelve Working Groups in writing Multifaith Letters and interdepartmental and external communications.• Submit update articles to the Secretariat fortnightly on the Working Groups’ projects to increase online engagement.

• Manage 70 staffers to conduct logistical, marketing, and outreach tasks for conferences attended by 50+ high schools.• Oversee a team of 50 undergraduate writers to produce 2,000+ pages of research and writing on 15+ different topics.• Organize the administrative deadlines and assignments leading to the conference, which will host 600+ delegates.• Coordinate with the conference’s Secretariat to set the registration rate, total budget, costs, and profits from the conference.

Competes with the UCBMUN team, ranked the 8th best Model UN team nationally in the Model UN circuit.• BarMUN 2022 hosted by Boston University• UNCMUNC 2022 hosted by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Honorable Mention• MUNE 2023 hosted by Emory University•UNCMUNC 2023 hosted by the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill• HNMUN 2024 hosted by Harvard University• VICS 2024 hosted by the University of Virginia: Outstanding Delegate

• Supervise and train 30+ staffers in multiple committees on backroom interaction and Rules of Procedure per Robert's Rules of Order in UCBMUN's BearMUN Conference• Assist in organizational affairs in run-up to conference competition• Moderate the experience for around 300 delegates in the conference• Administer deadlines for staffers and review background guides on different global and historical issues

• Collect data on authoritarian elections in the “Challenging Autocrats at the Ballot Box and Beyond” project led by a PhD researcher.• Analyze the behavior and performance of opposition parties through the data collected from the European Parliamentary questions through entry-level coding.• Support the lead researcher in analyzing data recorded on Excel and Google Sheets from 100+ countries to help plan the dissertation paper.

• Manage the Middle Eastern, North African and International Student Affairs Department of Senator Luca Hadife's Office.• Represent the Office and its interest in meetings with the University's administration to maintain good relations and acquire necessary resources for the Office's constituents.• Communicate with 20+ Middle Eastern Registered Student Organizations to connect them with appropriate funding and leadership resources.• Plan and inaugurate the Berkeley Middle Eastern Annual Conference, which is planned to be the largest convention for Middle Eastern students on the West Coast, expected to accommodate 300+ students and Middle Eastern influencial leaders from different industries.

• Serve as the social media coordinator for the Art of Writing initiative in the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley• Design posts, graphics, and interviews for the social media pages through Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premier• Consult weekly with program managers and professors across campus to advertise their courses, plan media "takeovers," and host interviews with• Cooperate with the Center in fulfilling any miscellaneous tasks that often require filming and photographing

• Led a team of 210 staffers, including Operations Department’s Deputy Director and 12 departmental interns, to promote Generation Z’s views on national and local politics through publications, digital content, podcasts, voter registration drives, and campaign volunteering.• Directed the grant and donor search team to raise an additional 50,000 USD to the organization’s voter registration drives and state/federal lobbying days between August and November 2023 through calling more than 100 individual donors and applying to 20 grants.• Cooperated with high school and college campuses to hold 200 voter registration drives for younger eligible voters by the end of 2023.• Recruited volunteers in local, state, and national campaigns in “key” states like California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

• Director and team leader at the Office of Senator Shrinidhi Gopal. • Responsible for the planning and execution of the Senator's projects including, but not limited to, projects associated with Cal Dining.• Drafted and co-sponsored the legislation passed by the ASUC Senate for the AdHoc Cal Dining Student Advisory Committee responsible of representing students' voice on food quality, variety, and accommodation.

• Serve as an assistant-chair and debate moderator in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Committee in the annual National High School Model United Nations Conference• Research and publish educational guides and resources on Debt Restructuring and Energy Security and Sustainability• Advise students in public speaking skills, resolution writing, and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations• IMUNA is an UN-affiliated 501(c)(3) non-profit with a $500,000 operating budget to organize NHSMUN, the world’s largest Model UN conference, fostering international politics education, diplomacy, and written skills for 5000+ high school students