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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed reports on gender-related issues such as girl’s education, health, reproductive rights, and safety.
• Created UNF’s Gender Lexicon: a dictionary tool used to train in gender-education
• Analyzed countries’ progress on Sustainable Development Goals through their Voluntary National Reviews
• Researched gender-related and development-related topics to contribute to the UNF’s fact sheets collection.
• Co-organized and led programming for 400 student advocates at the UNF ‘Girl Up’ Summit

Amman Governorate, Jordan

• Contributed to TAKAMOL’s gender audits of Jordan’s public sector
• Wrote 4 reports of TAKAMOL’s gender audit
• Contributed to the creation of 3 gender equality trainings for Jordan’s public sector
• Helped compile data from the trainings on gender in order to draft the final reports
• Edited final drafts of gender audit reports and the trainings’ surveys and interviews

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Performed legal research to assist housing, wage-theft, criminal, and immigration cases
• Wrote 6 legal memos on housing and immigration cases and other legal matters such as judicial review
• Assisted with family-reunification cases to help immigration lawyers with the child-separation crisis
• Translated for DC citizens involved in housing law cases to improve witness-to-attorney communication
• Translated for families going through the family reunification process in order to gather enough evidence for the case.

Multiple Locations

• Translated for 30+ women at the border seeking asylum in the United States and legal representation
• Provided cultural support to women who find it difficult to relate to American attorneys in order to facilitate their application process
• Wrote 4-5 legal memos a night for client interviews to have documentation for attorneys to decide if they want to represent someone
• Communicate with clients’ families, home countries, and other relevant parties and research current events from home countries in order to establish a complete picture of the cases

San Jose, Costa Rica

• Developed lesson plans involving basic English vocabulary, grammar, and reading and writing in order to teach 25-30 preschool students
• Assisted English and Spanish departments by translating daily announcements and school event information to establish a bilingual dialogue
• Collaborated with the school’s exchange program and participants to provide them with an English-speaking resource

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisted with the Talent and Innovation Competition of the Americas (TIC Americas) by looking over the applications, arranging interviews, and answering the applicant’s questions about the TIC’s process.
• Organized the team’s meeting schedules, flight itineraries, and event schedules in order to aide the staff’s work
• Gathered and arranged TIC applicants’ documentation and set up travel arrangements to bring them to DC
• Translated global documents pertaining to the competitor’s countries of origin for the team members to review and select the finalists (languages: French, Spanish, and English)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Processed nationals immigration and legal transactions, such as visa and passport renovations
• Resolved legal questions for tourists traveling to Costa Rica
• Cataloged, recorded, and filed over 100 nationals’ legal and immigration information daily in order to present the information to the consular offices.

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Relations And International Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs