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Amherst, Ma, Us

Amherst, Ma, Us

Contributed to the establishment of the AAPI major at Amherst College. Authored the major's introduction, thesis guidelines, program requirements, and curated an event archive and creation timeline on the official website. Organized a 50+ attendee AAPI major celebration, managing logistics and setup. Designed and promoted posters for three CHI talks, handling Zoom tech for events with 50+ participants.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Create a data pipeline and organize metadata w/ Professor Matteo Riondato for Wistariahurst Museum’s digital collections to convert content from 11 Finding Aids (Word) to digitalized website pages (JSON/HTML). Design software (Python, HTML/CSS) to convert, compress, and standardize data for useful information extraction.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Conduct research on small publishing presses with Professor Dennis Sweeney and Frost Library for 5 hrs/week during Fall/Spring semesters and 20 hrs/week during January semesters. Code database and design website to increase awareness for student internships, research projects, and opportunities (SQL, Python). Currently planning syllabi focused on creative writing published by small presses.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Editor-in-chief and website developer of Amherst College’s student-run literary and arts magazine founded in 1848. Publish 40+ prose, poetry, and art pieces every semester. Organize bi-weekly writing workshops and meetings with 60+ club members. Coordinate literary events such as literary readings, art exhibits, and promotion with campus organizations (The Common, The Student, Mead Museum, Frost Library).

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Facilitate multi-way interactions between artificial intelligence across the liberal arts. Research and publish articles on AILA website about current events related to AI policy and use. Facilitate events discussing the use of artificial intelligence in education, dance, writing, and art.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Tutored 2 students for 6 hours weekly on curriculum designed around COSC-111 and COSC-112 (data types/conditionals, project-based OOP assignment, recursion, and sorting algorithms).

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Promoted positive mental health through active engagement within the Amherst College community. Hosted wellness events such as letter writing, Project Connect groups, sleep wellness fair, and Effective Altruism collaboration. Created posts for social media to promote community resources.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Experience in fundraising, social media, newsletter, and design. Format, post, and advertise 60+ short stories/poetry on the main website using WordPress, Buffer, Neon One, and more. Write 15+ proposals and emails for grants and fundraising opportunities to support TC writers and contributors. Facilitate literary events (The Common Young Writers Program, Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, Festival of Debut Authors, Iced Coffee Haus, LitFest) in celebrating a diverse literary community.

Develop user dashboards using React and Javascript to ensure intuitive and responsive front-end designs for VKGs and LLMs products. Integrate Firebase for real-time data management and user authentication. Implement API endpoints and asynchronous processes in microservices team using FastAPI, Postman, and Python for robust backend functionality.

Interviewed 8 stakeholders from Boston City to understand tech procurement processes. Created comprehensive internal guidelines for acquiring interoperable technology solutions, defining 10 key pillars, ethical dilemmas, and recommendations for ethical and effective procurement. Developed resource lists for new staff and local CBOs for equity consulting.

Read, review, and comment on 20+ prose submissions for the Adroit Journal weekly.

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Collaborated with a partner teacher in a third-grade classroom of 20 students for virtual and in-person instruction in social-emotional and academic learning. Piloted extracurricular initiatives to promote virtual student engagement through advertising, meetings with administration, and role assignment. Implemented City Year Reads, an after-school, virtual program, for 8-12 students to improve literacy. Organized bi-monthly, events (65+ members) to encourage site-wide team dynamics.

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Engaged with 20+ City Year donors by explaining the importance of the organization in the classrooms and the local Manchester community and actively participating in virtual marketing and communications through newsletters for the school and Champion Letters.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And English

Activities and Societies: The Indicator, The Common, ACM Club, Artificial Intelligence Club, Asian American Writer's Group, The Student.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Chamber Orchestra, Tri-M, Asian Club, Speech & Debate.