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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

—Managed ACLU-MN's voter outreach efforts after voting rights restored to Minnesotans on felony community supervision in 2023.—Designed and managed 2024 ACLU-MN Smart Justice Fellowship, including recruitment, curriculum planning, instructor selection, budgeting, and serving as facilitator/instructor for modules.—Maintained and grew relationships with over a dozen community partners.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

—Taught guests how to successfully and safely throw axes, guiding them through games, troubleshooting technique issues, and ensuring strict following of safety measures while guests have fun.—Built rapport with guests and encourage them, especially those nervous about axe throwing.—Maintained axe throwing lanes, including replacing boards, stenciling targets, sharpening axes and ensuring floors clear of splinters.—Served and monitored guests’ alcohol consumption.

Bemidji, Minnesota, United States

—Adapted and taught Spanish language curriculum for learners aged 6-18, alongside daily camp-wide programming and 24/7 camper supervision.—All camp functions, including staff meetings, conducted in Spanish.—Managed camp waterfront and waterfront staff, including: scheduling lifeguard and spotter coverage, conducting lifeguard skill in-services, training non-lifeguard spotters, conducting camper and staff waterfront orientations, conducting and documenting swim tests, supervising canoe outings, and leading deep-water missing person searches.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

—Led primary canvassing effort for Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley, recruiting caucus delegates and engaging with hundreds of community members about constituent concerns leading up to the 2023 Ward 2 caucus.—Independently managed turf assignments and assisted with public campaign events.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

—Engaged in targeted deep canvassing in partnership with multiple local progressive organizations, including 100% Minnesota and TakeAction Minnesota.—Initiated thousands of conversations with community members regarding controversial issues, including climate change policy, restorative justice, and decarceration.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

—Researched, pitched, and drafted articles on US-Asia issues for in-house publicationAsia Matters for America, focusing on immigration policy history and trends,demographic trends within domestic AAPI populations, and human rights issues.—Attended public panels, seminars, and events as a representative of the East-WestCenter, taking notes and generating memos for internal circulation.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

—Coordinated with attorneys, corporate clients, and clients’ foreign employees to longitudinally monitor and manage foreign employees’ immigration cases, tracking expiration dates and deadlines associated with foreign employees’ employment authorization and stay in the United States to ensure legal compliance.—Provided excellent customer service to both corporate clients and foreign employees, responding to concerns in a timely manner and guiding foreign employees through each step of the relevant employment-based immigration processes.—Analyzed, drafted, reviewed, and submitted timely H-1B, H-4, L-1, L-2, TN and I-140 petitions to USCIS and CBP with a high degree of autonomy.—Coordinated with corporate clients to achieve compliance related to completion and retention of Form I-9, Labor Condition Applications required for H-1B and labor certification applications.—Formerly Nilan Johnson Lewis PA (merged May 2020).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

—Grew organization’s social media presence, promoting events, classes, and programs.—Communicated organization’s services to Minnesota’s Karen refugee community.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

—Prepared materials for accepted asylum cases, including initial phone intake, countrycondition research, preliminary interviews, and case write-ups for pro bono representation.—Led preliminary interviews with clients to identify feasibility of asylum, sensitively gathering information about traumatic episodes of human rights abuses.

Shanghai, China

—Designed and instructed multiple Oral English course sections for doctoral students, along with running a biweekly university English Corner and delivering lectures on American cultural topics.

Asian Studies Department

—Conducted and filmed interviews of Minnesota’s survivors of the Japanese-AmericanInternment, editing and compiling footage to produce a 40-minute documentary.

Master Of Human Rights, Migration & Transpacific Studies, 3.95

Bachelor Of Arts, Asian Studies/China Studies, 3.73

International Summer School, Peace Studies And Conflict Resolution

Term In China, Mandarin Language Exchange Program

High School Diploma