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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Long Beach, California, United States

• Drafted Ex Parte Motions to Appoint Guardians Ad Litem• Drafted Motions for Summary Adjudication• Drafted Replies to Opposition to Summary Adjudication• Drafted motions to compel further discovery responses and production of documents • Drafted motions to quash overbroad subpoenas seeking Plaintiffs’ medical records • Represented plaintiff in hearings on motions, scheduling, case management, and case status.

Long Beach, California, United States

• Drafted motions to compel discovery responses and production of documents• Drafted separate statements and compiled exhibits for motions to compel • Drafted meet and confer letters to opposing counsel • Drafted oppositions to demurrers and motions to strike• Drafted Motions to Quash Overbroad Subpoenas• Composed medical records requests to opposing counsel

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Represented clients pro bono in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, T-Visa, and U-Visa applications.• Wrote brief to address judge's concerns with providing sufficient notice and opportunity• Filed and completed USCIS documents• Conducted client interviews for declarations • Wrote declarations for submission to USCIS • Conducted fact-finding to verify information clients provided• Coordinated service of process on opposing party

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Conducted legal research on voting rights and campaign finance• Wrote white paper on campaign finance reform at state, federal and local levels • Wrote blog posts concerning voting rights litigation• Organized and compiled litigation documents for FY2020 cases • Composed legal memos on COVID-19 related voting rights litigation and combating election disinformation

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Researched local redistricting commissions in California to assist in applicant outreach efforts • Researched post-2018 changes in redistricting law as part of effort to create public resource for redistricting information• Composed memo on Illinois' Free and Equal Elections Clause to assess possible litigation

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Researched reforms to redistricting law• Researched changes in state supreme court membership • Assisted in composing public records requests• Assisted in updating All About Redistricting, a public resource for the redistricting process in all 50 states

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Evaluated and fulfilled requests for voter data through CSV exports and direct import to customer nations•Cleaned up and imported customer data as part of enterprise migration to NationBuilder. •Investigated problems with voter data•Updated voter data using Trifacta Wrangler•Imported shapefiles into NationBuilder database. •Conducted research into states' procedures in handling purged and dropped voters•Provided input to improve documentation and training for future Data Services Engineer hires

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Procured shapefiles on behalf of NationBuilder’s RunForOffice.org project•Created new shapefiles using ArcGIS and QGIS. •Modified existing databases and data sets utilizing geoprocessing tools•Researched election periods, candidate filing windows and other information on school board elections in multiple states

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Provided Geographic Information System support for Resilience Rating System project. •Organized and compiled information on community resilience and disaster preparation research. • Assisted in research and composition for project fundraising letters. •Assisted in composition and editing of the Building Resilience-LA Guide for Facilities project

Ames, Iowa

•Researched bicycle demand and cyclist stress assessments for the Ames Area MPO. •Mapped bike storage infrastructure at public areas and multi-family housing in Ames, Iowa.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Shelved books, assisted patrons, and processed returned and newly acquired books.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Assisted in preparation of offering memorandum to real estate investors, Conducted data entry into computer model for real estate development , Compiled billing report, Organized files for various projects, Conducted research into local real estate markets and created rent comps

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geography, Gis

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma, College Fellows at UCLA3.65 GPA. 3.931 Major GPA.