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Leadership member who helped initially develop a committee on fostering stronger relationships with community partners through understanding their historical, cultural, political, and economic contexts.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Created new financial tracking systems to manage all income and expenses; review and manage all expenditures for two international projects, two local projects, and general chapter operations; determine funding allocation for projects and financial path that chapter should take; develop strategy for chapter of over 80 students; present to donors and business professionals to secure funding

Organize data and remote assessments to determine optimal design to provide residents in Chirijuyu and Chi Chokon, Guatemala with drinking water

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Use ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy, photon counting, and steady-state emission spectroscopy to study energy and charge transfer dynamics in thin films with applications in solar energy conversion; projects: UROP on effects of aggregation on energy transfer in copper phthalocyanine thin films; computational work on modeling energy transfer in thin films; studying the excited state dynamics and fluorescence quenching of BODIPY molecules and derivativesAdvisor: Dr. David Blank

Berkeley, California, United States

Developed methodology using machine learning to assist in data analysis of dark-field TEM images; wrote and adapted python script to obtain virtual dark fields and stacking order maps simulating four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM); assisted in resolving structural changes in ferroelectric 2D materials under application of an electric field using dark-field TEM; prepared and characterized 2D van der Waals heterostructures using dark-field TEM, optical microscopy, conventional Raman spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopyAdvisor: Dr. Kwabena Bediako

New York, United States

Worked on developing methods to better quantify the energetics of charge escape and electron transfer in model ground state doping systems for organic photovoltaics and addressing the role of charge delocalization in charge escape by measuring dissociation constants for radical ion pairs in nonpolar solvents; learned pulse radiolysis; presented at three intern presentations; wrote fifteen-page report; presented at poster presentation

Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, United States

Evaluated performance of battery material through voltage tests, XRD, and SEM; identified metrics for quality control in primary battery chemistry; developed battery tests; conducted literature search to identify novel primary battery materials; presented at two intern presentations; constructed batteries

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry

Honors: Summa Cum Laude with High Distinction Minor: Computer Science

High School Diploma, Liberal Arts And Sciences

Activities and Societies: Founder of Eden Prairie Food Rescue; Research Assistant at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Vice President.