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Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed travel logistics for hundreds of high school foreign exchange students in the Midwest area, including flight itineraries, Covid and visa documents, and coordination with local volunteers.• Collaborated with the national travel teams and field staff on contingency planning to mitigate and resolve travel complications with student’s arrival and departure journeys, including day-of operations at Chicago O’Hare Airport.• Familiarized myself with international SQL server global link and rigorously checked for data entry errors to prevent travel complications with student’s flight itineraries.

Taigu, Shanxi, China

• Instructed 250 Chinese graduate school students in a self-designed 15 week English curriculum, lecturing remotely and asynchronously from Ypsilanti, MI. • Designed and managed my own lectures, slides, assignments, and submissions to create an engaging digital curriculum that accommodated to multiple levels of language ability. • Organized and graded submissions for hundreds of written and spoken homework assignments each week, provided feedback in a timely manner, and corresponded to answer questions posed by students via WeChat and email.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Worked with Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in projects involving monitoring and field work in remote locations, including prepping pine forests for controlled burns, and removing invasive species.• Received certifications in chainsaw safety and wildland firefighting, while learning safe workplace practices and risk management.• Collected and organized GIS data on projects, operated power tools, and safely drove company vehicle to worksites.

Greater New Orleans Area

Focus in data visualization and mapping of oil and gas industry activity in the Louisiana wetlands.

Elyria, Oh

Tutored Chinese immigrant elementary school students who were not proficient in English and accompanied students in class to translate course direction and explain vocabulary. Translated instructions on standardized tests. Participated in professional development workshops with other faculty, and learned essential language teaching skills.

Oberlin, Oh

Worked with a team of administrators and professors to plan events about environmental issues in Asia using grant money awarded to Oberlin College from the Henry Luce foundation. Attended weekly meetings to organize logistics of visiting speakers and student-faculty workshops. Interacted with a variety of academics from multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Managed the online website to catalog the variety of events organized and funded by the Oberlin LIASE grant.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Shadowed lawyers and observed their environmental litigation legal process. Researched indigenous land rights disputes and collaborated with indigenous and non-indigenous environmental activists in Hualien, Taiwan. Studied governmental and colonial histories to better understand the current state of the legal situation of indigenous people in Taiwan.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Global Studies

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Environmental Studies And East Asian Studies Majors, Geology And Politics Minors, 3.83

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa(ΦΒΚ): Zeta Chapter of Ohio, Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, Oberlin Bike Co-op,