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Greater Boston Area

Facilitate 8 virtual listening sessions of 60 community partners to discuss local criminal justice issues. Draft city council candidate questionnaire to uplift local issues on policing, immigration, and city budget.Organize 4 college student forums to address bias policing and inform model policy on campus policing.Partner with a team of 5 advocates to.

Greater Boston Area

• Build partnerships with community organizations to plan outreach events for 500+ LGBTQ community members through panels, film screenings, community roundtables, and workshops.
• Allocate $15,000 budget and organized local artists, partners and sponsors, digital and physical promotional materials, raffle donations, volunteer recruitment, and award and grant selection for women of color cancer.
• Scheduled 30 community leader and medical professional speakers to improve the staff’s gender-inclusive competency.
• Co-manage tobacco cessation program and counsel LGBTQ+ patients to discontinue tobacco use.
• Convened 16 LGBTQ+ community leaders for the inaugural Queer Women’s Health Roundtable to discuss health issues that affect queer women.
• Coordinate research projects on intimate partner violence, contraception, HPV, and diabetes.

Wellesley, MA

• Collaborated with cultural organizations to coordinate workshops with distinguished authors.
• Synthesized online and library research on postcolonial scholars into literature reviews.
• Designed marketing materials, managed event logistics, supervised 5 staff members, and maintained website content via Drupal.

Wellesley, MA

• Developed faculty resource guide for racial, LGBTQ, religious, and disabled communities.
• Managed Twitter and Facebook posts on diversity initiatives via Hootsuite.
• Edited Google site, syllabus, handouts for Digital Technology and Learning Communities course.

Wellesley, MA

• Communicated technical assistance in-person and via phone calls and emails to 200+ students, alums, faculty, and staff members.

Wellesley, MA

• Launched online fundraiser, partnered with businesses for raffle, corresponded with academic departments and alumnae to fundraise $3,900 for an asthma foundation and student scholarships.
• Managed $10,000 budget, supervised 9 students, coordinated entertainment and catering to organize a formal event for 130 guests.
• Generated Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter posts to increase social media following by 40%.
• Created the WordPress site, published first online newsletter, and wrote blog posts.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Awarded $5,000 grant to investigate the relationship between women's health and public policy in Washington D.C.
• Authored abstracts for National Minority AIDS Conference and grant for sexual assault education.
• Designed graphs and infographics from CDC quantitative data on HIV female infection rates based on racial groups and location.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Drafted response letters to grant endorsements and constituent benefit claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA).
• Input contact information into database via Intranet Quorum, answered constituents'​ phone calls, alphabetized master filing system of 150+ cases.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Activities and Societies: Ethos, Diversity Committee, Wellesley College for Obama Research and policy focus on women, people of color, and.

Spring Semester Study Abroad, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Young Women's Leadership Project Studied the state of race, gender, and sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa.

Wintersession Study Abroad, Africana Studies

Studied the social, political, and cultural trends of Jamaica on a national and international level