Customer Service Associate

• May 2023 - Present

Working in International Student & Scholar Services, I help facilitate casework for international students currently going through various immigration-related processes, such as visas, work authorizations, and travel authorizations. Working in International Student & Scholar Services, I help facilitate casework for international students currently going through various immigration-related processes, such as visas, work authorizations, and travel authorizations.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• May 2022 - Jul 2022

The Policy Agendas Project, also called the Comparative Agenda Project, is a UT Austin-based group focused on compiling and coding data on the policy processes of governments around the world. In my particular project, work was done to align PAP's voting record data on the US Congress with that of Voteview, an organization that analyzes congressional votes through the prism of ideology. As a research assistant, I worked to code and match congressional votes between PAP data and that of Voteview. This involved filing through congressional records and extensively pairing thousands of points across datasets, while also working to ensure data is consistent and correct. Show less

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

• Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

Working as a TA, I had the opportunity to support an honors-level course in developing academic research skills. The course, "The Nature of Inquiry", explores the various methods through which research is conducted, and culminates in students creating their own hypothetical research proposal. I assisted in this course by guiding students through the coursework, meeting with them one-on-one to help improve on individual needs, and helping the course professor develop and improve the course. Working as a TA, I had the opportunity to support an honors-level course in developing academic research skills. The course, "The Nature of Inquiry", explores the various methods through which research is conducted, and culminates in students creating their own hypothetical research proposal. I assisted in this course by guiding students through the coursework, meeting with them one-on-one to help improve on individual needs, and helping the course professor develop and improve the course.

Community Relations Intern

• Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

Supporting Precinct 2’s Community Relations Department. From assisting community liaisons with Precinct initiatives to preparing materials and research for Commissioner briefs, as well as helping resolve constituent complaints and coordinating community outreach events. Supporting Precinct 2’s Community Relations Department. From assisting community liaisons with Precinct initiatives to preparing materials and research for Commissioner briefs, as well as helping resolve constituent complaints and coordinating community outreach events.

Research Assistant

• Jan 2020 - May 2021

As part of the Political Economy and Sovereignty team, I helped in research on the political economy of indigenous lands, territories, and dependencies, which face many of the promises and pitfalls of sovereignty -- even if applying the word "sovereign" to them requires scare quotes. I helped look into the creative ways that these semi-sovereign political units navigate their liminal status and pursue their development goals when it comes to international relations. The focus was on semi-sovereigns linked to the US: American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) jurisdictions; US territories; and US Freely Associated States (Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau). I also spent a semester on the Data4Development team, which focused on research about international financial institutions and the presence of diversity in various forms within those institutions. In particular, I spent time researching and cataloguing the educational backgrounds of national representatives at the International Monetary Fund. Show less

Pool Manager

• May 2015 - Aug 2020