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Society For Physics Students

• Attend every SPS Executive Board meeting• Organize events including resume workshops and community movie nights

Bryn Mawr College Political Science Department

Bryn Mawr College Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program

• Prepare taxes for low-income clients while developing customer service, fast-paced learning, and time management skills• Train volunteers to prepare taxes in the Fall Semester • Organize and manage Spring VITA tax preparation services, honing skills such as communication and time-management• Guide volunteers through Spring tax preparation, with specific knowledge of state and local returns

• Researched, wrote, and distributed news articles and blurbs about federal science policy debates and decisions with FYI team• Attended and summarized a wide variety of events, including congressional hearings, think tank discussions, and federal advisory committee meetings to improve the FYI team’s awareness of science policy developments.• Maintained a weekly blog• Summarized complicated science legislation into layman bullet points• Read and distilled congressional appropriations budgets• Built a database detailing long term congressional science budget data using Microsoft Access• Visualized long term congressional science budget data using Microsoft Excel• Standardized leadership tracker picture sizes using Adobe Photoshop

Bryn Mawr College Student Government Association

• Present student body comments, requests, and grievances during monthly faculty meetings

Bryn Mawr College Political Science Department

• Collaborate on Intro to US Politics Syllabus, giving student perspectives on expected workload and exercising direct communication skills • Create GroupMe group chat for direct communication with students• Suggest increased accessibility measures, including alignment of PDF sheets, survey of student preferences on exams versus essays, and OCR scanned pages to aid aural learners• Gauge participation levels, answer questions, monitor waiting room, and address individual student circumstances during class time• Discuss weekly status updates with the professor regarding workload and student participation

Office Of Rep. Susan Wild

• Fielded calls from constituents and staff from other offices and documented in Intranet Quorum• Batched mail both physically and digitally using Intranet Quorum system• Wrote form and custom letters to constituents using Bloomberg Government and Congress.gov• Streamlined physical custom mailing process using IQ, scanners, printers, and paper folders• Documented, received, and sent flags to constituents • Collaborated with comms staff, legislative staff, LC/SA, and other interns• Wrote memos to brief Rep. Wild and legislative staff including Health, Science, and Housing Equity issue areas.• Familiarized myself with the halls of congress by delivering and picking up items from other parts of the building.• Maintained organizational system for batches and letters both on IQ and on Google Sheets

• Managed yard sign distribution—connected voters to distribution centers and honed administrative and damage control skills• Created new system for data entry and reduced spreadsheet creation times for GOTV efforts from one hour to fifteen minutes• Constructed daily call and text analytics for organizer team• Text-banked and called voters; persuaded voters and handled complaints

Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

• Phonebanked and was promoted to "Call Team Lead" after one week to train other phonebankers, answer questions, and maintain morale; improved interpersonal skills• Performed data entry and served as a "Get Out the Vote Remote Captain"—exercised dependability and was on call 24/7 to complete crucial tasks during the final days of the primary election

Bryn Mawr College Dining Services

• Prepared food in the college dining hall, using skills such as efficiency, organization, and multitasking.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Physics, 3.84/4.00

97.35/100.00

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Society (2018-Present), Wardlaw-Hartridge Honor Roll with Distinction (2015-2019), and Spanish.