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New York, NY, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provided legal and administrative support to NEA’s legal department (Office of General Counsel), including using Zoom/Webex/Google Meet to host meetings, handling legal mail, and managing office supplies.
• Created a new organization system for the department’s in-office physical files that is more systematic and accessible to staff.
• Authored and designed the Office of General Counsel’s quarterly newsletter, which is distributed nationally to NEA’s state and local teacher union legal teams and provides important updates on public education legal.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Promoted to Business Immigration Consultant in November 2022.
• Promoted to Senior Business Immigration Analyst in November 2021.
• Coordinated the transfer of our corporate clients’ foreign-national workers to the United States by preparing visa application materials to be submitted at U.S. Consulates abroad.
• Maintained the legal, work-authorized status of our corporate clients’ foreign-national workers in the U.S. by preparing and filing applications/petitions with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
• Efficiently drafted legal documents and prepare successful immigration filings with the highest attention to detail.
• Proactively tracked case progress and submit inquiries with the appropriate party when case processing is outside normal processing times.

New York City Metropolitan Area

San Diego, California, United States

• Streamlined company’s project tracking system to improve project management; created and maintained master Excel spreadsheet to organize and track construction projects’ status and payment information.
• Organized contracts, project files, photographs, and other documents into project folders.

Manassas, Virginia

• Worked closely with experienced immigration attorneys to represent clients throughout the immigration process.
• Conducted research to substantiate legal arguments for asylum cases in Immigration Court, including country condition research on Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Peru, with a particular focus on regional.
• Drafted legal arguments, completed government forms, and assembled complete application packages for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency.
• Expedited the Firm’s data retrieval process by digitalizing relevant immigration court decisions and creating a country condition research database.
• Drafted legal documents, including multiple Motions to Withdraw, completed USCIS forms, including I-765, I-589, I-601, I-130, and AR-11, and completed court forms, including EOIR-27 and EOIR-28.Significant Achievements:
• Research conducted on psychological impacts of domestic violence included in successful asylum case.

Williamsburg, Virginia

• Expanded the sample frame of AidData’s ‘Listening to Leaders’ survey which receives feedback from international development leaders on their development priorities, use of data and analysis, and donor performance.
• Headed the overhauling of 6 country-specific data sets (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Turkey, Montenegro, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste); used advanced internet search techniques to collect and update relevant information on.
• Improved AidData’s ability to accurately measure trends in international development; survey data collected using improved sample frame cited in multiple AidData publications.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs, Major Gpa: 3.85 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: • Participated in Julian Bond Transcription Project (2018).

International Relations And Affairs

Semester-abroad program in Singapore. Political Science Coursework.

International Relations And Affairs

Semester-abroad program in Athens, Greece. Political Science and English Literature Coursework.