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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Ma

Boston, Ma

Boston, Ma

Detroit, Mi

Provided legal assistance to Mayor's Senior Counsel and Policy Adviser on issues of blight remediation, violent crime reduction, and employment benefits.

Boston, Ma

Located missing claimants from resolved cases dating back as far as late 1990s and paid out $90,000+ to 120+ victims of wage theft. Additionally, designated roughly $900,000 to be sent to unclaimed property and the Massachusetts General Fund in effort to clean up Office accounts. Revised and edited current unpaid restitution account to correct inaccuracies in AGO records and aid future investigations for missing wage theft victims.

Boston, Ma

• Entered data and formatted corporate audits for inspectors, gaining experience in Excel. Learned about investigative auditing, fair labor law, legal practice, and law enforcement• Initiated and closed wage and hour complaints, issued private rights of action, and performed numerous other administrative duties at request of inspectors and lawyers• Presented testimony before Attorney General's Special Grand Jury that led to indictment of alleged criminal in an unpaid benefits and medical insurance fraud complaint, experiencing indictment process and the proper presentation of materials to a grand jury

Ann Arbor, Mi

Provided research assistance and revised writing for the following publications:Charles Adside III, Replay That Tune: Defending Bakke on Stare Decisis Grounds, 64 Clev. St. L. Rev. 519 (2016).Charles Adside III, Constitutional Damage Control: Same-Sex Marriage, Smith's Hybrid Rights Doctrine, and Protecting the Preacher Man After Obergefell, 27 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 145 (2017).

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Coded 1,000+ pages of hazard mitigation plans for Missy Stults 12-15 hours per week in order to quantitatively assess the plans' effectiveness in addressing climate change • Learned over 150 different criterion essential to authoring hazard mitigation plan, developing knowledge of environmental science and urban planning concepts in order to highlight each use in over 50 different city and county plans. • Participated in weekly phone calls with two environmental science graduate students to reconcile coding differences. Effectively communicated my interpretation of plans to more knowledgeable bosses, learning to constructively criticize superiors at points of disagreement

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Researched 10-12 hours per week on Dr. Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America concerning racial implications of implementing law enforcement reform beginning in 1970s. Provided information on important historical figures, legislation, and events to be included in the final publication• Conducted independent primary source research on legislation, politicians, crime, government agencies etc., developing research, analytical and problem-solving skills• Sorted voluminous Presidential archive files for Dr. Hinton by document type, content, and date to accelerate research and develop familiarity with historical archival research• Located copyright information for images intended to be included in final publication, and found and initiated contact with copyright holders for desired images

Juris Doctor

Managing Articles Editor, Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 52 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Sociology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government, History, Graduated With Highest Honors And High Distinction

Phi Beta Kappa Kappa Alpha Pi Pre-Law Fraternity, Community Service Chair Thesis: Taking the Temperature of the Battlefield: Military.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society