Experience

KidsMates Inc.

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Director

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  - Co-founded nonprofit organization advocating for children of incarcerated parents - Established children’s book program in 23/36 states with federal prison visiting rooms - Launched, published, and edited "KidsMates Chronicle," an online educational resource featuring interviews with thought leaders on mass incarceration and childhood adversity - National speaker on tips for developing resilience in the face of parental incarceration



Recidiviz

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  - Developed in-house software supporting firm’s mission to reduce mass incarceration - Programmed software alerting staff about time-sensitive state prison policy proposals (2021) - Created software tools to gather publicly accessible information used in Spark prediction model (2022)



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Histpun Social Science Research Intern

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  - Researched mass incarceration's historical and comparative trends using quantitative methods - Developed automatic web scrapers to compile data from incarceration statistics databases



Yale Young Global Scholars

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• "Politics, Law, and Economics" Student

  • Jul 2023 - Jul 2023

  - Attended lectures and elective seminars covering topics such as public policy, human rights, market regulation, governance structures, international policy, and conflict/cooperation across borders. - Researched and spoke on the structural barriers to accessing healthcare in the U.S.



Worth Rises

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Prison Curriculum Youth Fellow

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

  - Completed graduate-level coursework on carceral systems with focus on prison communications



Osborne Association

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• SUSU Campaign Youth Fellow

  • Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

  - Organized annual month-long national awareness campaigns on parental incarceration - Successfully lobbied for legislation to keep incarcerated parents close to home