Experience

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  MAIN STREET LEGAL SERVICES INC

  • Student Attorney

    • Jan 2023 - Present

    Provide post-conviction defense services to several clients, including: 440.20 resentencing motions, clemency and parole

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  The Bronx Defenders

  • United States
  • Legal Services
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Criminal Defense Fall Intern

    • Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Criminal Defense Summer Intern

    • May 2023 - Aug 2023

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  City University of New York School of Law

  • Research Assistant

    • Jun 2022 - May 2023

    Research Assistant for Professor and Interim Dean Hayat. Helped draft an article on how the use of prior convictions in criminal trials are a badge and incident of slavery repugnant to the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.

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  Amistad Law Project

  • Summer Legal Intern

    • May 2022 - Aug 2022

    Legal intern at Amistad Law Project focusing on the following area(s) of law: civil litigation, prisoner’s rights, criminal appeals. I had the pleasure of working on commutation cases and contributed to the efforts that helped secure freedom for Mr.J. Along with building with the Amistad Law Project staff, I was a part of a cross-organizational summer internship program with a range of other movement lawyering organizations: Community Justice Project, Detroit Justice Center, Movement Law Lab, Law for Black Lives, and Baltimore Action Legal Team where I engaged with and learned other organizational approaches to movement lawyering.

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  OCA Greater Houston

  • Civic Engagement Advocacy Organizer Programs Associate

    • Oct 2020 - May 2022

    Greater Houston works to strengthen the infrastructure and instill a culture of year-round civic engagement in AAPI communities. In doing so, the AAPI community will have the capacity to exert an influential voice in the public policy arena and in the social, racial and economic justice movement. We work to build partnerships in the AAPI community that engage in an Integrated Voter Engagement approach that builds community power and advances racial equity and social justice. Integrated Voter Engagement is a strategy for creating a permanent infrastructure for civic engagement that builds a long-lasting social justice movement, as opposed to shorter-term electoral moments.Founded in 1979, OCA-Greater Houston has helped to protect the right of AAPIs to vote through the national APA Voter Exit Survey, suing the State of Texas for Voting Rights Act violations, advocating for language access/inclusion, economic empowerment, Census outreach/organizing, and assisting greencard holders to apply for citizenship for the past decade with our community partners. Worked to develop the leadership pipeline of informed and civically engaged youth through our leadership and organizing year round training program in partnership with MiFamilia Vota and helped run the Houston AAPI Film Festival to educate on issues and support the stories of AAPIs.

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  RAISE (Revolutionizing Asian Immigrant Stories on the East Coast)

  • New York City

  • Community Organizer

    • Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
    • New York City

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  Center for Family Representation

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Paralegal

    • 2019 - Oct 2019
    • Greater New York City Area

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  Catholic Charities

  • Louisville, Kentucky Area

  • Immigration Legal Intern

    • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
    • Louisville, Kentucky Area

    Assisted with naturalization and citizenship, permanent residency, representation in removal cases, and employment authorization.

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  Middlebury College

  • Middlebury, VT

  • Sociology Research Assistant

    • Mar 2018 - May 2018
    • Middlebury, VT

    Helping to advise and support Professor Linus Owen’s research on how Halloween is not just a “holiday” but a site to examine gentrification and emerging adults. Compiled research weekly to enhance knowledge and provided evidence for the new sociological phenomenon’s emerging.