Party Ventures is a DAO investing in next-gen media, entertainment, & creator ecosystems. We’re here for the bold, the visionary, and the ones building the future of culture.

- How to Find a Party is now a Party Ventures Brand - Founded How to Find a Party, a newsletter focusing on consumer tech, web3, and culture, with a 30.8% open rate and a 15.9% click rate.- Curated and authored insightful articles on emerging technologies, industry trends, and cultural developments.- Built and engaged a growing subscriber base, fostering a community of tech enthusiasts and professionals.- Analyzed and reported on key market developments, providing valuable content for readers.

- New Internet City is now a Party Ventures Brand- Founded and organized New Internet City, a community attracting over 200 technologists, artists, investors, creators, and culture enthusiasts in the NYC Metro Area.- Secured sponsorships from IYK and POAP, enhancing event value and attendee experience.- Curated events fostering connections and collaborations in the consumer tech, media, and culture sectors. - Coordinated event logistics, including venue selection, sponsorships, and attendee engagement.- Developed and maintained a vibrant community through monthly meetups, enhancing the consumer tech ecosystem in NYC.- Promoted events via social media and direct outreach, achieving significant growth in attendance and community participation.

SheFi empowers female and non-binary professionals, entrepreneurs and executives to succeed in frontier financial industries. Awarded SheFi scholarship sponsored by PayPal.

- Led investment initiatives: Championed a $1.7M Pre-Seed investment in Somewhere Somehow, overseeing due diligence and deal memo creation, setting the stage for a transformative social calendar platform.- Supported key deals: Played a pivotal role in a $3M Seed Plus investment in Fursure, delivering crucial deal memo contributions and diligence support, aiding the journey of an innovative online pet insurance platform.- Facilitated connections: Leveraged my personal network to connect a portfolio company with two investors, supporting their Series A raise and fostering growth and opportunities.

- Generated significant returns: Sourced and supported the Realtime deal, a Gen Z-targeted consumer social platform, achieving a remarkable 7.5x MOIC, and played a key role in the Living Carbon deal, yielding a 5x MOIC and attracting high-profile subsequent investments.- Launched Polymath Podcast: Established and curated the fund’s official podcast, securing high-profile interviews and enhancing our brand's visibility and engagement within the venture capital community.

- Sourced high-potential deals: Identified and progressed 51 deals through the pipeline, leading to 10 follow-up meetings and 1 advancing to the investment committee, showcasing my knack for uncovering promising opportunities.- Conducted market research: Delivered comprehensive market research and deal support for Power, contributing to a detailed competitive analysis that informed strategic decision-making in clinical trials technology.

- Project Management for Axios Local Launch: As Project Manager, I led the team that launched Axios Local's custom signup pages, topic pages, and newsletters across five cities (Denver, Des Moines, Tampa Bay, NW Arkansas, and Twin Cities), driving subscriber growth to ~172k.- Newsletter Launch Coordination: Coordinated the launch of four key newsletters—Axios Closer, Axios Latino, and Axios Gaming—overseeing project timelines and collaboration across teams, which resulted in a combined ~447k subscribers and 30k unique site views.- Led CMS Tool Development: Managed the development and deployment of a self-service content creation tool within our CMS (Eden), reducing the technical resource need for publishing long-form content and enhancing operational efficiency.- Oversaw CMS Story Editor Redesign: Directed the redesign of the internal CMS's (Eden) story editor, focusing on user experience improvements and productivity gains for the Axios Editorial team.Enhanced CMS Functionality for Expansion: Spearheaded the scoping and implementation of filtering functionality and UX improvements in our CMS (Eden), enabling the strategic expansion of Axios Local into eight additional cities.- Byline and Webflow Documentation: Led audits and documented strategies for optimizing byline presentations across Axios products and assessed the utilization of Webflow within the organization, aiming for technological and operational advancements.

Taken part in weekly sessions taught by investing partners from partnering venture capital funds and met weekly with a smaller cohort of peers and an investor mentor.

- Defined product strategy for 2 consecutive product releases, resulting in improved user experience and new features that allow users to share development projects and other multimedia content on the platform. - Migrated 28 users, 392 fields worth of user data, and 165 fields worth of content data from Wagtail into WordPress Engine, resulting in improved features for creating and editing content, greater ease of making product changes, brand cohesive UI, and reduced infrastructure maintenance work

- Led effort to define functional requirements for a custom Open Opportunities’ implementation for the Department of Interior, contributing to a successful release- Transferred and re-formatted ~70 PBIs from GitHub to TFS, aligning Open Opportunities’ processes with its sister products and increasing continuity within the USAJOBS suite. - Transitioned and scaled Open Opportunities’ help desk from a 2-person team in DC to a 5 to 10-person team in Macon, GA in 2 months, increasing the efficiency of Open Opportunities’ PMO office- Created release notes for 8 consecutive sprints, informing users of functionality changes within the platform - Standardized PBIs and conducted bi-weekly grooming sessions, reducing the backlog by 10-15%

- Led an effort to define functional requirements for two iterative product releases. Communicated with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and resolve discrepancies in proposed features- Managed product incident queue; reduced outstanding tickets by 97% over a month and a half- Created a standardized product-wide test case directory by gathering 33 existing test cases and creating 41 new test cases, helping to reduce production bugs by 88.6%- Helmed effort to create a detailed architecture diagram demonstrating the relationship between the product and downstream systems within two days, per a last-minute client request

As a Business Transformation Consultant, I have held a variety of roles supporting clients within the Communications sector utilizing many skill sets. As a Project Management Assistant, I utilized my Excel and financial analysis skills to support the Project Manager with overseeing the budget of two multi-million dollar projects. I adjusted over 14,000 budgeted hours to ensure the projects' successful completion. I tracked and foretasted hours and expenses charged to each project by over 50 resources. As a Business Analyst, I created a a named deliverable for the client. To create this deliverable, I used Excel to analyze 563 survey responses from employees across 6 departments and 78 teams, measured by 26 data points. Using the results from my data analysis, I created action steps that ultimately shaped the project's future change management strategy.

As an Expert Development Intern at 1776, I worked alongside the Expert Development Associate in managing campus operations for office hours, classes and workshops held by 1776's ever-growing network of mentors and experts. I launched a research initiative amongst 1776's front office staff to improve office hour logistics. Myself and my supervisor worked alongside the Events team to organize a 40 person gathering of 1776's most enthusiastic mentors and experts. Over the course of the internship, I updated four months of mentor office hours on Union, 1776's communication platform, which resulted in hundreds of members being able to sign up for one-on-one sessions with mentors.

As a Strategy Intern at ProShares, I assisted the Strategy team with research projects; topics including financial market return and liquidity analysis, fund performance analysis, risk measurement, strategy testing and portfolio construction issues. I took a significant role in revamping the contact list in SalesPage, updating and adding over 100 of ProShares' important industry contacts. Using roughly 10-20 different Bloomberg Data Points in Excel, I led an initiative to automate the monthly competitive reports, helping the Strategy team see ETF performance against competitors quicker and more conveniently. I conducted a literature review for my supervisor on emerging market bond yields using 3 news articles and 2 academic papers as a base.

I was selected from ~400 applications as one of 50 students to participate in the three-day Google AdCamp program in Ann Arbor, MI, which provided an in-depth introduction to the company’s culture and online advertising platforms. Aside from meeting some awesome people, I participated in skills-based and development trainings, in addition to a team-based case competition which entailed market & consumer analysis, developing an advertising strategy, and presenting the final proposal to established Google sales leaders.

I worked Stakeholders Data Intern at Bloomberg during Summer 2015. During my time, I assisted the Stakeholders team with day to day tasks, such as processing Form 4 documents, as well as larger projects. On one such project, I cleaned up approximately 1000 People and Client IDs, a unique code identifying users and companies in the Bloomberg system, resulting in a greater amount of financial documents being published to the Terminal automatically. Within that project, I utilized Crowdflower, a crowdsourcing platform, to simplify and hasten the collection of the data needed to find companies and individuals in the Terminal, resulting in data being collected for roughly 500 people. I assisted my supervisor on a project related to the activity of activist investors. Using aggregated fundamental data points imported from the Terminal into Excel, I created 3 spreadsheets depicting the changes in the holdings of institutional investors for 75 firms that underwent activist campaigns. The team and I used those findings to identify trends in institutional holdings during the life of an activist campaign. I wrote and presented to the team a two page analysis summarizing these results. In addition, I made significant contributions to a winning intern project. I worked within a team of six other interns to "create" a new function on the Bloomberg Terminal, which, at the end of the internship, was to be displayed in a science fair style presentation to the Bloomberg staff, who then voted for the winners. My team set out to combine the Terminal's supply chain function with its mapping function to create a large supply chain map. I developed important data driven features for the map, including overlays of news, weather, and various risk. As a member of the winning team, alongside my team I presented the supply chain map function in a private meeting with Bloomberg's Head of Global Data.

I was 1 of 70 students selected out of 700+ applicants to attend a three-day program at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. During my time in the program, I attended workshops regarding enterprise, sales, operations, and creative thinking to learn about the business side of the technology industry. I applied business knowledge and creative strategies in a case study aimed at solving a current issue in the technology industry

As a International Investment Intern for Select USA, I supported the SelectUSA team in building an maintaining strong relationships with overseas entrepreneurs. I responded to 3-5 incoming investor inquiries per work day. I assisted regional economic development organizations regarding economic expansion alongside an International Investment Specialist. I generated reports, PowerPoint presentations, talking points and briefing materials for U.S. government officials. I took ownership of a inquiry regarding economic development in a US Territory, culminating in a meeting with a representative from that territory.