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New York, New York, United States

• Spearhead the development and strategic direction of a newly created portfolio to ensure the effectiveimplementation of existing gun safety laws.• Collaborate across departments to contribute to the establishment of short- and long-term priorities, promoting a cross-functional approach to achieving our mission.• Generate innovative ideas for research projects, advocacy efforts, communications, and outreach, andproblem-solve as challenges arise to ensure that the organization stays nimble and responsive.• Act as a recognized subject matter expert in gun violence policy, domestic violence and public healthresearch, representing the organization in media appearances, conferences, and internal training sessions, including at the Bloomberg American Health Summit 2022.• Manage a team of 2-4 employees of varied educational and work backgrounds, ensuring balanced work distribution and alignment with organizational goals and mission.• Orchestrated a highly successful national convening of over 50 gun safety policy experts, facilitatingextensive discussions and actionable outcomes.• Co-authored and steered the publication of a groundbreaking report informed by the convening, providing invaluable guidance to state and local policymakers for the improved implementation of extreme risk laws.

Greater New York City Area

• Led the project management of pivotal research materials instrumental in legislative campaigns across 50 states and the federal government, contributing to a remarkable 90 percent win rate.• Demonstrated leadership by power mapping the field, forging partnerships with influential stakeholders,academics, and political leaders.• Authored a series of influential research and advocacy reports, including Guns and Violence Against Women and Impact of Gun Violence on Children and Teens.

Greater New York City Area

• Spearheaded the development and publication of research materials that serve as the cornerstone of legislative campaigns, spanning all 50 states and the federal government, contributing to the organization’s 90 percent win rate.• Oversaw the management of the organization’s two most complex and public-facing databases of school shootings and unintentional shootings by children; responsible for periodic data integrity checks.• Led the hiring, on boarding, training and mentoring of a diverse team of 3 full time employees and a rotating number of part time consultants.

New York

• Analyzed federal, national and state data to inform policy decisions and campaigns and found creative ways to use research when the data source was incomplete and imperfect. • Collaborated closely with key members of the policy, legal, state affairs, communications and field teams to execute a policy agenda and strategies, contributing to a state legislative win rate of over 90 percent.• Received a promotion for strong performance and exceptional leadership within a year and repeatedly selected to lead high-priority research initiatives.

New York, Ny

• Analyzed large datasets from a variety of sources to make the economic case for U.S. immigration policy reform; the datasets laid the foundation for an interactive national map and individual reports for each of the 50 states. • Conducted economic analyses of the percentage of immigrants in numerous American industries and professions; these findings were central to an ad campaign and the basis for future reports.• Investigated, wrote and posted articles on the organization’s web-site about various cultural contributions of immigrants in the U.S.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched and recommended outreach strategies for connecting immigrant small business owners in New York City to various city services as part of a NYU Wagner graduate Capstone project.• Conducted in-depth interviews with leaders of trade, merchant, and chambers of commerce associations across the city; analyzed these qualitative data to help inform the city’s programmatic priorities for immigrant small business owners.• Compiled a report about the unique needs & challenges of this particular constituency, and initiatives undertaken by other cities to serve their needs better.

Greater New York City Area

Served as a teaching colleague for the Financial Management course which is a core course for the MPA/MPH program.Prepared innovative teaching plans to reinforce concepts taught in class and conducted weekly recitation sessions for class size of 20 graduate students.Responsible for midterm and final exam proctoring as well as exam grading.

Greater New York City Area

• Served as a Research Assistant to Prof. Salo Coslovsky, Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Public Service on a paper he was co-authoring with MIT Prof. Matthew Amengual.• Researched factors impacting opposition to labor regulations on a firm, sector and national level.• Analyzed large data sets of variables such as openness to trade, size of informal sector among others and cleaned the data for further quantitative analysis.

Greater New York City Area

• Pioneered and implemented the first ever evaluation by the agency of a 20+ year old affordable housing tax credit program.• Developed flow charts, tracking sheets, and databases to enable easy data analyses of all 120 housing projects under the program and their impact on affordable housing units in the city.

Mumbai Area, India

• Led the research & recommendation of a framework for the organizational restructuring of a large Indian media firm.• Built an extensive competency dictionary unique to them and played a major role in client communication through presentations and workshops.

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Public Policy Analysis

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Student Groups, Wagner Student Association (2015-2016) Board Member, NYU Wagner Women's Caucus.

Master Of Science (Ms), Development Economics

A firm grounding in classical and heterodox economic theory with a special focus on its implications on policy in developing economies..

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics And Statistics

Activities and Societies: • Represented St. Xavier’s College at the National Economics and Entrepreneurship Summit- St. Josephs College.