Matangi Melpakkam Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

South Asian American Digital Archive

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

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

• 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.