Experience

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  Born This Way Foundation

  • Advisory Board Member

    • Jan 2023 - Present

    Born This Way Foundation, co-founded and led by Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, supports youth mental health and works with young people to build a kinder and braver world. Appointed as a 2023 youth board advisor and brand ambassador, I serve the foundation through providing guidance and expertise with its programming and its work with underrepresented communities.

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  Cripple Media

  • Founder

    • Jun 2018 - Present

    At 15, I founded the first-ever media company run by and for young disabled people, where we aim to shift the narrative of disability in mainstream media and place young disabled people in positions of power. We do this through creating honest & representative pieces of content of our community, such as through reporting & content creation on all mediums. We also offer consulting / strategy services; we partner and work with companies who want to better understand & speak with the disability community in their campaigns and products. We have worked with companies such as Instagram, Gucci, Google, Twitter, Comcast, Vice, and more. Because of our work & impact, we have been recognized by companies such as The New York Times, Yahoo News, Allure, and Vogue Australia. Disney+ also told my story of creating Cripple on the show, Growing Up, in our episode titled "Emily."

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  Chalk Back

  • Advisory Board Member

    • Sep 2021 - Feb 2023

    Served on the board advisory team for Chalk Back, an international youth-led movement committed to ending gender-based street harassment and violence with public chalk art, digital media and education. Since their founding in 2016, they have grown organically into an intersectional feminist collective of more than 150 young activists in 50 countries on 6 continents, with a collective following of more than 210,000 people on Instagram. As board advisors, we supported the organization in providing mission-based leadership and mentorship on strategic issues.

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  Center for Media Engagement - The University of Texas at Austin

  • Austin, Texas, United States

  • Researcher

    • Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
    • Austin, Texas, United States

    Worked as an undergrad research assistant for the Center studying computational propaganda. We studied the intersections of political communications and social media, and how users may be manipulated by algorithms and disinformation tactics from political groups online. In 2022, I co-authored a paper that used mixed methods to show how community leaders from civil society organizations are coping with the disinformation spread in Latinx and Asian communities in the US.

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  iGeneration Youth

  • News Reporter

    • Aug 2017 - Sep 2019

    Reported for the teen vertical on iGeneration Youth, and wrote on a variety of topics including disability, politics, and entertainment. For the November 2017 issue, I wrote the cover story interviewing sitcom star, Micah Fowler, talking all about disability and his hit show, Speechless, on ABC.

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  Teen Vogue

  • Writer

    • Apr 2018 - Apr 2018

    Wrote stories for the Health + Wellness vertical for Teen Vogue about disability, and became the first teen disabled writer to do so.

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  Women's eNews

  • Writer

    • Apr 2017 - Apr 2017

    Became a reporter for the Girl Fuse series on Women's ENews, discussing the intersection of life in being a teenager and being disabled.