Experience

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  Boston College Law Review

  • United States
  • Book and Periodical Publishing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Editor in Chief

    • Jun 2023 - Present

  • Staff Writer (2022-2023)

    • Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

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  ACLU of Massachusetts

  • Law Student Intern

    • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

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  Boston College Law School

  • Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:03 Certified Student Attorney, Civil Rights Clinic

    • Aug 2022 - May 2023

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  Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Summer Legal Intern

    • Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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  The Legal Aid Society

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Grant Writer, Civil Practice

    • Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
    • Greater New York City Area

    I was the sole Grant Writer for the Civil Practice of the largest social justice law firm in the U.S., providing legal services in over 300,000 matters annually for vulnerable New Yorkers. Led on initiatives such as scaling-up of services to New York's immigrant communities against the Trump Administration's immigration policies and formulating response to COVID-19 pandemic.• Developing all funding proposals for major organization with annual budget of more than $80 million raised from external sources. Directly brought in nearly $70 million in funding from both private and public funders. • Writing and coordinating funding applications for variety of private foundations and public funders, including City, State, and Federal agencies. In first year, wrote grant proposal for IOLA fund of New York that secured $10.5 million in funding (largest amount for single organization in New York State and increase in organization’s funding of over $3 million). • Coordinate annual City Council funding applications for almost $10 million in funding, including working with lobbyists and working to develop and refine initiatives.• Experienced analyst of public policy and in-house writer for Civil Practice working in over 21 areas from immigration and housing to domestic violence and health law issues combined with affirmative law reform litigation. • Creating all external documents and communications: program and narrative reports, City Council testimony, briefings, lobbying materials, communication documents, copy for website and external communications.

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  The Carter Center

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • Administrative Assistant - Health, Peace and Education Programs Development

    • Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    I worked as a member of the Programs Development team, which handles designed gifts from government, international and large charitable foundation donors. I initially provided temporary cover during a period of staff on-boarding and then stayed on to provide support for specific projects.• Manage and maintain The Raiser’s Edge donor database to ensure accurate, current information about program donors. Proficient in use of database to run queries, generate reports and export data.• Compiling, drafting and editing briefings for President Carter and other senior management ahead of meetings and engagement with external stakeholders including heads of state, government ministers, royalty.• Leading on financial database data quality assurance process, including financial reconciliations. Successfully reconciled almost $7,000,000 of funds across different sets of data held by the Center.• Led on migration of 10,000+ files and records to cloud-based SharePoint system. Proficient with cloud-based database and troubleshooting various issues.• Prepare official correspondence from the Executive Offices for external stakeholders and partners.• Generating unique as well as standard reports, including gift and financial reports; researching and compiling information for events, presentations, meetings, etc.• Coordinating relevant HPEPD department projects or initiatives with other departments at The Carter Center, including the broader Development department, Finance, Public Information, Events, Health Programs, and the Executive Offices.• Process grant agreements and donor contracts.

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  United States Senate

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • Congressional Intern at The Office of U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, Georgia

    • Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    Completed internship with Senator Isakson's Office, as a result of which I was offered a paid position.▪ Drafting and editing official correspondence. ▪ Assisting in liaison with federal and state agencies.▪ Responding to constituents on legislative and policy issues, ranging from foreign policy to domestic fiscal policy.▪ Supporting Office with constituency case-work.▪ Supported process of forming State delegation to 2017 Presidential inauguration.

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  The Carter Center

  • Greater Atlanta Area

  • Intern, Research Department

    • Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
    • Greater Atlanta Area

    ▪ Supporting President Carter and Director of Research with research for publications - both academic and otherwise.▪ Leading on producing detailed report into Carter Center's 101 election monitoring missions, quantifying success of the Center's operations in supporting development of democracy globally.▪ Compiling weekly overviews of political, security and economic developments in countries in which The Carter Center operates for President Carter and internal center audience (domestic and international).▪ Writing articles for external audiences, including Carter-Mondale Administration alumni.

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  The Royal Burgh of St Andrews Community Council

  • St Andrews

  • Community Councillor

    • Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
    • St Andrews

    Elected to Community Council representing a resident population of 15,000 people and student community of over 7,000 people. ▪ Acting as bridge between local community and regional/local government decision-making processes.▪ Sit on Planning Committee and representative on the St Andrews in Bloom Committee.

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  UK Home Office

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Intern, Director General's Office, Border Force

    • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
    • London, United Kingdom

    Selected for extended summer work placement following competitive application process. Performance evaluated as ‘exemplary’.▪ Working across Private Office of Director General and Secretariat of Border Force, a law enforcement command within the Home Office responsible for front-line border operations in the UK. Also had short-term secondments to operational and other divisions, including Intelligence Directorate, National Command Centre, National Border Targeting Centre and the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism.▪ Supporting the Director General and assisting with policy formulation and implementation on border security areas - including: customs, immigration, organised crime and counter-terrorism.▪ Compiling, drafting and quality assuring briefings, including operational reports for Government Ministers.▪ Managing the flow of information to and from the Director General by supporting Private Office in controlling the submissions mailbox.▪ Assisting with support of Director General's board attendance, including drafting of minutes and official records of meetings.▪ Drafting official correspondence for internal and external stakeholders and colleagues.

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  BETA e.V. (Bringing Europeans Together Association)

  • Model European Union Strasbourg 2015 - Country Liaison Officer for the UK

    • Jun 2014 - Jun 2015

    Member of the Organising Team for Model European Union Strasbourg 2015, one of the largest simulations of European politics in Europe. ▪Implementing public relations and fundraising strategy at the local level in the UK.http://meu-strasbourg.org/

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  St Andrews Foreign Affairs Review

  • Analyst

    • Sep 2013 - Jun 2015

    ▪ Regularly writing for the website and print publication on a wide range of topics in foreign affairs and international relations. ▪ Serving as Foreign Correspondent while studying in Hong Kong and Copenhagen. http://foreignaffairsreview.co.uk/author/jonathan-bertulis-fernandez/

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  Groundings Ancient

  • Editorial Board Member

    • Oct 2014 - May 2015

    Member of Editorial Board for an interdisciplinary undergraduate academic journal accepting submissions from students at the four ancient universities of Scotland. ▪ Determining topics of submissions and conducting peer-review process.▪ Working one-on-one with author of article selected for publication during detailed editing process.

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  Frontier Horizons

  • Political Risk Analyst Intern

    • Mar 2014 - May 2015

    ▪ Interning as member of country report research team. ▪ Creating monthly country reports covering political, security and economic. developments for external audience and various clients.▪ Focusing on Mozambique and wider East/Southern Africa region.

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  Liberal Democrats

  • Brent, London

  • Local Government Candidate

    • May 2014 - May 2014
    • Brent, London

    I ran as a candidate for the council seat for Queens Park ward in the London Borough of Brent, gaining 5% of the vote.

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  Obama for America

  • Washington DC/Alexandria, Virginia

  • Campaign Intern

    • Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
    • Washington DC/Alexandria, Virginia

    ▪ Providing strategy support and ground organisation▪ Helping in eventual Democratic election victory in Virginia

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  Mill Hill School Foundation

  • Administrative Assistant

    • Jan 2011 - Jun 2011

    ▪ Customer relations role as part of External Relations team.▪ Responsible for liaising with agencies and educational organisations both in the UK and overseas.▪ Developed content for website and Foundation publications.

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  Constituency Office of Sarah Teather MP

  • London

  • Intern

    • Jul 2007 - Jul 2007
    • London

    ▪ Interned in the constituency office of local Member of Parliament ▪ Seconded to work on national by-election campaign as campaign strategist assistant