During my second year of law school, I was elected by my peers to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review.As editor-in-chief, I was responsible for...• Leading an editorial board of eighty-nine students through a six-issue publication cycle.• Organizing the entire publication process from article selection to copyediting and final publication.• Maintaining clear and consistent lines of communication with editors, authors, and school administrators.Under my leadership, the Law Review's editorial board completed the largest publication cycle in the journal's 104-year history. This involved reviewing thousands of submissions, publishing forty-nine pieces, substantiating over 16,000 sources, and editing nearly 1 million words.

After my second year of law school, I summered at the Milwaukee headquarters of Quarles & Brady LLP.At Quarles, I was responsible for...• Advising a corporate client on their reimbursement rights against the federal government in a contract dispute.• Composing an office memo untangling a conflict between two evidentiary rules relevant during depositions.• Researching and cataloging youth medical privacy laws and laws impacting prescriptions post-Dobbs.

In the spring semester of my second year, I interned at the Wisconsin Supreme Court with the Hon. Jill J. Karofsky. In Justice Karofsky's chambers, I was responsible for...• Researching and writing bench memoranda for on criminal, civil, and administrative cases.• Addressing complex legal issues involving civil procedure, insurance coverage, and statutory interpretation.• Studying the judicial decisionmaking process and learning about the internal operations of judicial chambers.

During the fall semester of my second year and in advance of the 2022 midterm elections, I joined the National Redistricting Foundation as a Litigation and Policy Intern. At the NRF, I was responsible for...• Assisting in ongoing redistricting litigation and crafting anti-gerrymandering policies with external partners.• Delivering regular research memos for attorneys litigating redistricting cases before the United States Supreme Court. • Tracking state-law legal developments to advise external partners on redistricting policy best practices.

In my second year, Professor Frank Tuerkheimer asked me to help him prepare a course about the legal history of the Watergate scandal. With Professor Tuerkheimer, I was responsible for...• Designing a 14-class syllabus that narrates on the institutions which brought down the Nixon White House.• Reviewing prospective class reading materials and reporting on their efficacy to the Professor. • Conducting archival research and locating primary sources to highlight the scandal’s key developments.Professor Tuerkheimer's course was offered by the University of Wisconsin Law School in the fall of 2023, and I served as the course's teaching assistant.

After my 1L year, Professor Robert Yablon asked me to assist with his legal research into the political campaign industry. With Professor Yablon, I was responsible for...• Assisting the Professor as he writes a chapter on the political campaign industry in his and Daniel P. Tokaji's Election Law in a Nutshell textbook.• Surveying the historic and contemporary legal developments that shape the political campaign industry.• Drafting weekly memos that report my findings and offer the perspective of a former campaign professional.

For my first law school summer, I returned home to Chicago's western suburbs to work in legal aid with Prairie State Legal Services. At Prairie State Legal Services, I was responsible for...• Providing legal aid to low-income or elderly persons and military veterans in throughout DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, and Kendall counties. • Drafting motions on a variety of civil legal matters, and especially in estate, eviction, and expungement cases. • Conducting intake meetings, reporting clients’ legal issues to attorneys, and managing client relationships.I am proud that my work directly resulted in saving a client's home from an undue foreclosure. My work also helped numerous clients get a second chance at life by contributing to numerous criminal expungements and the termination of an abusive conservatorship.

In 2020, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood hired me to join her campaign and manage her political priorities.At Lauren Underwood for Congress, I was responsible for…• Running the day-to-day operations of the Congresswoman's state-level PAC, the Farm Team PAC.• Recruiting candidates to run for local office and providing specialized consulting services to lower-ballot campaigns.• Meeting ambitious fundraising goals to finance the Farm Team's contribution commitments and paid communication programs.• Managing relationships with local leaders and stakeholders and advising the Congresswoman on local political matters.As a result of all this hard work, we elected 46 exceptional candidates on the state and local level, including 34 women and seven people of color.

In advance of the 2020 cycle, the DCCC hired me to organize Illinois's 14th congressional district as part of the March Forward program. At the DCCC, I was responsible for...• Cultivating relationships with dozens of volunteers in all of the 14th district's seven counties.• Recruiting volunteers to participate in off-year field training sessions.• Building and maintaining a district-wide letter to the editor program placing dozens of letters in the 14th district's local papers.• Supplementing and assisting Congresswoman Lauren Underwood's campaign with field organizing events.As a result of all this hard work, we turned out a historic number of Democratic voters in the primary and general elections, re-electing Congresswoman Underwood and making her the only congressional Democrat to win a second term from the Fox River Valley.

After working on a congressional campaign, the Kane County Democrats hired me to lead day-to-day operations in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections. At the Kane County Democrats, I was responsible for...• Designing and executing the party’s $100,000 voter contact program.• Consulting and coordinating with all 35 Democratic campaigns operating within the county including statewide and congressional campaigns.• Recruiting and mobilizing nearly 200 precinct committeepersons to canvass tens of thousands of Democratic voters.As a result of all this hard work, we successfully elected two-thirds of the county’s Democratic ticket.

Right out of college, I returned to my home congressional district to work on Mayor Matt Brolley's campaign for Congress. At Matt Brolley for Congress, I was responsible for...• Advising the candidate on policy and developing a detailed platform endorsed by the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and Chicago Sun-Times.• Cultivating and leading volunteer teams in canvassing thousands of voters.• Leading the campaign's social media strategy.• Managing the candidate's schedule.

My junior year at the George Washington University, I entered the start-up world with the Quorum Analytics team. At Quorum, I was responsible for...• Enacting business development strategy.• Presenting the value of the Quorum platform to potential clients.• Teaching new team members how to use and present Quorum to potential clients.• Remaining insightful on current events in Washington, D.C.

Beginning my sophomore year and through my junior year at the George Washington University, I worked as a research assistant to Professor Jill Kasle. With Professor Kasle, I was responsible for...• Teaching students basic legal writing skills.• Leading study sessions on constitutional law.• Helping freshman students acclimate to life in Washington, D.C. • Studying developments in constitutional law with the Professor.

During my sophomore year at the George Washington University, I joined the Washington, D.C. flagship store of Brooks Brothers in Georgetown. At Brooks Brothers, I was responsible for...• Staying up-to-date on fashion industry developments and seasonal company collections.• Managing unique and complex client purchases worth thousands of dollars. • Creating and maintaining long-lasting client relationships.• Providing the high quality customer service synonymous with the Brooks Brothers brand.