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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Supporting the Chicago Housing Authority, and the residents and communities we serve, with development planning on large-scale and neighborhood-level sites. Working with an experienced team to create community-led strategic plans for mixed-income housing and mixed-use development across Chicago.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Supported the City of Chicago to implement $250 million in direct and indirect affordable housing investments funded through the Chicago Recovery Plan. Worked on a range programs spanning the Mayor's Business, Neighborhood and Economic Development team and the Departments of Housing, Public Health, Planning & Development, and Water Management.

Toronto, On

As part of a hard-working team I helped deliver community-led change and thoughtful decision making on local and city-wide issues in Toronto. Top local priorities included improving road safety, strengthening our main streets and building affordable housing. At City Hall we worked on improving Toronto's transit system, improving our planning system, and making balanced, evidence-based policy decisions.

Provided planning policy research and analysis to develop City Planning's housing policies. Responsible for reviewing development applications relating to City of Toronto rental housing policies. Selected job functions: development review, pro-forma analysis, jurisdiction scans, housing data analysis, literature review for affordable housing policies, planning policy analysis.

London

Co-authored a report for the Cabinet Office on youth social action for a project part of national government policy to increase youth activism and civic engagement. Endorsed by HRH The Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dame Julia Cleverdon.(Report: http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Youth_Social_Action_in_the_UK_-_ver_3.pdf?1373620410)Completed a 36,000 data-point analysis of longitudinal pension data delivering three weeks of statistical analysis for the English Longitudinal Study in 5 days.

Cambridge, Ma

Mentored a group of 12 incoming first-year students, responsible for fostering Harvard's first-year residential community. Mentorship-focused role part of a formal advising position within the university student support structure. Advising was focused on academic, social and career guidance.

London

Gained consulting experience and worked on several accounts in industries ranging from international investment banking to business associations. Responsible for researching and writing a briefing on new-build home insurance products used to pitch for a contract that the firm eventually won. Contributed to and wrote client reports and briefings on UK public affairs issues. Gained a first-hand understanding of the client-consultant relationship and became involved in business processes at all levels of the service line.

Westminster, London

Primary research to model and project the cost of the House of Lords Reform Bill against the current cost of managing the House of Lords (the research valued the reforms at £433m in the first Parliamentary Session).Responsible for researching and briefing Lord Lipsey on subjects ranging from reform of the social care system in the UK to media regulation policy amid the News Corp phone hacking scandal.

London, United Kingdom

Researched and analysed the accuracy of statistics used by political parties in the month prior to the UK's 2010 general election. A selection of published articles are available here:http://straightstatistics.org/article/ukip-gets-its-facts-wrong-europehttp://straightstatistics.org/article/mixed-messages-inequalityhttp://straightstatistics.org/article/new-media-and-election-less-meets-eyehttp://straightstatistics.org/article/id-cards-sinking-wave-apathyhttp://straightstatistics.org/article/oxfam-spins-tasty-tale-about-worlds-favourite-food.

Master'S Degree, Planning

Awarded International Student Fellowship VP-Academic for Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society Coursework completed in real.

Bachelor Of Arts, Social Studies, Cum Laude

Graduated with high honours in Social Studies (an interdisciplinary degree focused on subjects across social science departments) Wrote.