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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Responsible for scaffolding algebra in ways that are connected to the real world and align closely to SAT standards.• Managing data collected from in class assessments to promote understanding of difficult standards and promote math IQ.• Coordinating senior events, including managing schedules, budgets, and student eligibility.

New York City

Founded in Brooklyn in 2017, LEFTOVERS is an independent design collective dedicated to capturing all forms of the human expression. We create acutely stylized selections of streetwear and athletic gear, inspired from the cities and lives of the people around us. LEFTOVERS is about sharing and appreciating our differences and forging a future with these aspects of ourselves in mind. We believe that nothing is more important than genuine intimacy between friends, and our collective reflects this; our creative team consists of rappers, novelists, physicists, filmmakers, and everyone in-between.

Remote

-conduct one-on-one lessons to international high school age students online-tutor students in high school reading/writing, history, interview and test prep (TOEFL/SAT/ACT)-utilize online teaching platform for interactive and multimedia lessons

Greater New York City Area

An innovative program that matches young entrepreneurs with successful and hopeful NY start-ups, Loeb Enterprises provided an amazingly rich environment that opened my eyes to the intersections of tech into everything from beauty products to call centers. As an intern, I was the audience at Loeb Enterprises' headquarters for sponsored talks featuring experienced entrepreneurs that discussed a number of relevant and informative topics. Additionally, all interns would come together weekly to discuss their successes with supervisors and troubleshoot whatever challenges they may be facing within their respective start-up.Being randomly assigned to a portfolio company within the firm, I took responsibility for developing improvements for an early stage voice analytics addition to call center software. This required comprehensive competitive analysis where I created clear and detailed models from existing metrics, gained rudimentary knowledge of back-end tech to communicate software possibilities to HR, and combined the desires of both wings to successfully present my developments to the platform. I was responsible for traveling to the company’s headquarters in Virginia to lead focus groups with phone agents, conduct profit loss analysis between different active user interface models, and deliver holistic system suggestions to streamline the call center platform. At the end of my time, I presented the aggregate of my work to the CEO of the software company, the owners of the venture capitalist firm, and other senior members. My suggestions to their streamlined platform are still in use today.

Chicago

I held this position for two consecutive summers in which I assisted high school and elementary school children with physical, mental, sexual, and nutritional health activities. Through designing curriculum, facilitating classroom discussion, and organizing workout plans, I guided these students through the summer and into promotion to their next grade.

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

As a language student, I studied Chinese(Mandarin) in Chengdu for 25 hours a week for six weeks. In this program, I was also responsible for projects that were meant to raise money for an underfunded school dedicated to serving children with autism. Our projects entailed traveling across the city using our own ideas to fundraise from the community, racing to different restaurants without GPS to receive clues from special items on the menus, and producing a show at Chengdu's Global Center that included many of the autistic children from the school we raised money for. Not only did these projects raise money for the school, but my team and I also won a place in Chengdu's local newspaper.

Istanbul, Turkey

In Istanbul, I was placed with a host family for six weeks. Without any program structure I was able live as my host family lived which included accompanying them on trips to the Grand Bazaar and the Haiga Sofia. During this time the Taksim Square riots had just come to pass and the reverb was still very evident. I took this opportunity to engage political activists who were friends of my host family as to what the cause for such civil unrest was and how it differed from western media coverage.

Political Science And Government, Senior

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football Rugby Club

High School Diploma