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Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

• Conduct flood risk assessments for 30+ commercial properties, utilizing climate risk mapping tools and site visits to identify hazards and develop tailored mitigation strategies.
• Create and implement comprehensive emergency plans to enhance tenant and building preparedness, ensuring resilience to flood events
• Contribute to sustainability efforts across the property portfolio, aligning initiatives with CSRD reporting and EU Taxonomy regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate flood resilience and sustainability practices into long-term asset management strategies

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Led a research team to conduct 52 stakeholder interviews and 3 federal agency focus groups to produce a 100-page current state assessment of the US flood information ecosystem that will eventually lead to broadscale.
• Designed a qualitative research plan and codebook, subsequently teaching my team how to conduct an effective qualitative data analysis
• Headed project management utilizing an agile approach to improve our efficiency in each sprint
• Led several Lunch and Learn talks on topics surrounding climate change, equity, and mitigation

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Provided technical assistance, review, and project management for $332M in FEMA hazard mitigation grant funding across 6 projects for 3 NYC agencies, including risk analysis, benefit-cost analysis, and environmental.
• Developed content and user interface decisions for a comprehensive, agency-facing hazard mitigation information website
• Researched and wrote one-page explainers on future climate impacts on NYC (sea level rise, floodplain management, heat, etc), the Justice40 initiative, the NY state Disadvantaged Communities methodology, and more
• Performed regular trainings and exercises for emergency activations, including activating coastal storm and flood protection measures and implementing transportation, utilities and infrastructure protocols
• Managed awarded grant implementation through contract procurement, timelines, scopes, reporting, budgets and reimbursements

• Researched, drafted, moved through the review process, and published 50+ pieces of COVID-19 public health and industry guidance for the California Department of Public Health
• Lead project manager for 20+ pieces of guidance – streamlined and reduced the number of steps between drafting and publishing to shorten the policy development time on tight deadlines
• Conducted a program analysis and began developing a dashboard to automate the tracking process
• Worked on a four-person team within an incident command structure developing guidance for the largest scale disaster in recent history in the largest state

London, England, United Kingdom

• Independently researched and authored two literature reviews totaling 6,500 words to be used for upcoming research at CGD under a recently awarded £2 million grant
• Examined modern women’s political participation and the effectiveness of quotas
• Utilized quantitative and qualitative studies to analyze the gendered dimensions of the disaster-conflict continuum, which included analysis on environmental security, discrepancies in common disaster research.

Greater New York City Area

• Conducted demographic research and social discourse analysis to develop creative and strategic recommendations for both national and local media campaigns
• Managed multiple ongoing projects with deliverables on different timescales
• Leveraged open source data, proprietary data, and live news sources
• Distilled data into comprehensible recommendations through research reports and data visualizations to lead internal strategy teams, external clients, and other non-experts
• Point person for performance measurement, developing KPIs, and analysis on multiple accounts
• Provided research for a successful pro-bono campaign to restore voting rights to felons in Florida

New York City

Provided support to multiple C-level advertising executivesManaged timelines, schedules, expenses, and general cross-department coordinationArt production and project management, including coordinating selects and approvals, creative direction, and timelines for projects

Greater New York City Area

• Interviewed and researched UN staff and crafted narrative copy for the official UN website
• Summarized Security Council and General Assembly meetings
• Liaised with dozens of national and international journalists during the General Assembly

San Francisco

Researched, wrote and published six investigative pieces on topics ranging from tenants’ rights, seismic retrofitting, forest conservation, pipeline protests, marijuana legalization, and corporate tax evasion

Master Of Science - Ms, Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management, Distinction

Masters Dissertation: Identity After the Flood: Political Discourses on Citizenship and Disaster in Assam, India Primary course focuses.

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science, Cum Laude

Capstone research on liquid democracies and technology-enabled political inclusion