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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Manage the development and execution of Congressional outreach strategy and represent GHTC in meetings with Members of Congress and staff• Monitor and analyze legislation and other policy developments to develop a strategy to incorporate R&D into new and existing policy• Assist in the development and execution of US Federal agency outreach strategy• Develop content and participate in strategy development for GHTC documents and communications

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Elected, after application, to a position as a Junior Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge• Served as a subject matter expert on US pandemic policy and the science-policy nexus• Participated in onsite and offsite meetings with current and former UK government officials, academic experts, and industry professionals• Gave guest lectures and sat on panels for current Cambridge graduate students on US science policy issues

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conduct independent research on global public health, One Health, citizen science, open science like open hardware, and other science policy issues for the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP)• Found and manage the Wilson Center's LGBTQI+ Employee Resource Group (ERG)• Act as the in-house COVID-19 expert for Wilson Center programs appearing in podcasts, videos, and publishing• Work across Wilson Center programs to seed new global health initiatives and future programming• Connect STIP, and the Wilson Center writ large, to the One Health community through topics like sensors, citizen science, serious games, and climate change• Project-manage the mobile app design, ArcGIS based website, and scientific strategy of the Wilson Center's contribution to Earth Challenge 2020 a global citizen science initiative with the US Department of State and Earth Day Network• Assist with the organization of and innovation within the Global Mosquito Alert Consortium and Citizen Science Global Partnership• Create and collaborate on policy briefs concerning science and technology innovation• Contribute to the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Blog CTRL Forward• Write, peer review, edit, and provide feedback on articles for publication• Perform standard administrative duties related to budgeting, scheduling, and general project management for workshops, conferences, and meetings

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conduct independent research on global public health, citizen science, environmental conservation, and other science policy issues for the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP)• Project-manages the Wilson Center's contribution to Earth Challenge 2020 a global citizen science initiative with the US Department of State and Earth Day Network• Assist with the organization of and innovation within the Global Mosquito Alert Consortium and Citizen Science Global Partnership• Create and collaborate on policy briefs concerning science and technology innovation • Contribute to the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Blog CTRL Forward• Write, peer review, edit, and provide feedback on articles for publication• Perform standard administrative duties related to budgeting, scheduling, and general project management for workshops, conferences, and meetings.

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Create and collaborate on policy briefs concerning science and technology innovation • Contribute to the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Blog CTRL Forward• Write, peer review, edit, and provide feedback on articles for publication• Conduct independent research on citizen science, public health, environmental conservation and other science policy issues • Coordinate a workshop and moderate a public health panel for a NASA co-sponsored conference, on vector and waterborne diseases, in May 2018

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Analyzed the genetics of over 500 frogs from Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay • Created a phylogeny and geographical map likely indicating the presence of 3 new frog species• Developed a tutorial for the use of Unix with Next Gen Sequencing for the University’s Biology department• Assisted in training all current lab students working for our PI Dr. Rafael de Sá• Conducted research for 10 hours a week each semester and 40 hours a week for one summer

• Oversaw the lab portion of the class and assisted in dissections and identification of various vertebrate structures• Reinforced lecture material with the students during and after class time

University Of Richmond

• Created the University of Richmond’s first healthcare review magazine (print and online). Articles were written on any topic associated with healthcare from business to organic chemistry.• Developed a constitution and bylaws for every facet of the production of the magazine• Recruited and managed a staff of 32 including writers and executive members• Coordinated the design, advertising, financing, and editing of the magazine• Contributed an article about a deceased and highly influential professor

Master Of Science (M.S.), Biomedical Science Policy & Advocacy

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology, General, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Kappa, Beta Beta Beta, Richmond Scholars, STC Improv, Lambda Chi Alpha