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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Write blog posts, editorials, backgrounders, and fact sheets on technical legislation for 140+ advocacy teams across country
• Build 20+ new relationships with Congressional staffers and coordinate workshops & briefings on nuclear weapons funding
• Facilitate strategic dialogues among coalition of civil society nuclear risk reductionists, guiding legislative advocacy
• Conduct literature review of legal definitions of “meaningful human control” in AI-enabled nuclear command and control

Massachusetts, United States

• Counsel highly-skilled learners of English for use in PhD qualification exams, dissertations
• Conduct mock interviews and provide feedback on essays and presentations
• Build cultural capital of learners based in East Asia and Latin America for use in the U.S.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Wrote policy and briefing memos for defense staff at the Office of Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-12), Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs
• Monitored, analyzed, and recommended votes for legislation related to
• Supported by pipeline program for Pell grant recipients with 0.5% acceptance rate.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Authored daily foreign policy newsletter for 8,000+ subscribers, weekly newsletter for 4,000+ recipientsBriefed team at weekly meetings on security dynamics & political developments involving nuclear risk, Iran, China, Russia.

San Francisco Bay Area

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Conducted secondary research on key stakeholders of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent
• Tracked developments in nuclear diplomacy (e.g. Biden-Putin summit, Japanese views of No First Use upon discovery of Chinese missile silos, Iranian elections) to draft commentary for GZ blog.
• Copy edited and proofread report on land-based leg of nuclear triad using knowledge of AP Style.
• Provided summary notes of weekly nuclear policy community calls.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Compile literature review of Spanish and English sources detailing the state of institutions, gang violence, and corruption in El Salvador as it relates to asylum cases involving children.
• Analyze Salvadoran security environment and lead report on harm to children in El Salvador as part of technical assistance program for immigration attorneys.
• Assist in the translation and interpretation of CGRS resource pages.

• Engage Congressional district of more than 700,000 constituents with emails detailing nuclear policy and defense budget updates as well as avenues for civic engagement.
• Organize lobby visit connecting Pentagon affairs with regional environmental and political issues.

Amherst, Massachusetts

• Women's and Gender Center, sole first-year program coordinator
• Coordinate speakers on indigenous activism, violence against women, and gender expression for Native American Heritage Month.
• Facilitate discussions among students about gender expression in the media
• Foster financial and creative collaboration between student affinity groups and the WGC

• Professor Leah Schmalzbauer, Chair of Anthropology and Sociology
• Draft policy memos addressing the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the socioeconomic mobility of Latinx youth
• Use Dedoose to mine data and code qualitative trends in interviews of first-generation Latinx-Americans and manage literature review to craft a thesis on the correlation between context of migration and pursuit of.

• Associate Professor of Political Science Kerry Ratigan
• Methodically compile and analyze Spanish-language news articles and video clips concerning Chinese mining operations and infrastructure projects in Latin America.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Helped victims of crime navigate applications for state compensation fund
• Accompanied families in court and provided emotional support
• Conducted outreach to local nonprofits and tabled at local food pantries
• Assisted advocates with daily tasks like victim update and outreach calls

San Francisco Bay Area

• Conducted research for casework involving immigration, veterans’ affairs, and Social Security
• Drafted letters on behalf of the Congresswoman and recorded constituent opinions
• Served as a representative of the district office at town hall events

San Francisco Bay Area

• Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing
• Organized the first Stanford Mental Health Innovation Challenge, a hackathon-style event for 100 high school students across two counties to devise solutions to problems in mental health care.
• Attended National Association for Mental Illness events alongside staff including Center director Steve Adelsheim in order to promote the event among mental health professionals and innovators within the field.
• Undertook public speaking and outreach responsibilities as a panelist at the 2018 Adolescent Mental Wellness Conference, as a speaker at San Mateo County's Office of Diversity & Equity, etc.
• Led Burlingame High School students in various mental health campaigns such as National Eating Disorder Awareness month, in which we collected upwards of 60 anonymous student stories for display around the school

Boston, Massachussetts

-Wrote an investigative report on the effects of unprescribed ADHD medication on adolescents, focusing on aspects of mental health motivating drug abuse and one's mental health state following drug abuse.-Conducted drug policy and basic pharmacology research and interviews under the supervision of Professor and award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, Asian Languages & Civilizations

Activities and Societies: Affinity Group Outreach Committee (Head Chair, 2019-2020), Amnesty International (Executive Board), Association.

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