Experience

Coalition for a Prosperous America

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President of National Security

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  • Convene biweekly working groups on China economic statecraft issues established under my leadership in 2021 in collaboration with human rights and national security advocacy groups• Create content for the China Project at CPA, establishing, directing, and tracking project deliverables including the drafting of legislation, finding Capitol Hill champions, coordinating across the executive branch, drafting policy papers and background briefers for each piece of legislation, educating others on the topics, and generating support for the policy items both within Congress and across partner organizations and collaborators.• Develop, implement, and participate in roundtables, hearings, conferences, and other educational gatherings. Show less

• National Security Advisor

  • Apr 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Coordinate, implement, manage, and advise on CPA’s work involving national security issues, notably regarding China, developing policy on strategic and economic competition between the U.S. and China. • Advocate to Capitol Hill and the Executive Branch to implement policy objectives that include: sanctions, inbound and outbound investment, export controls, dual-use technology, supply chain resilience, Defense and State Department policy, and changes to global capital markets and financial policy; as well as provide educational tools, working across party lines to accomplish policy change. • Provide legal and policy analysis on issues of economic, financial, and national security important; Write op-eds, briefing papers, legislative language, and other materials to advance policy, collaborating with stakeholders. Show less



Defense Priorities

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Policy Advisor (consultant)

  • Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

  Produced policy briefing papers and analysis on how to implement realist and restraint-oriented foreign policy outcomes for the United States in the Middle East and other regions, including for Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Kept keen focus on issues regarding Taiwan and defensive capabilities, but did not engage on writing for realist positions on China engagement explicitly. Contributed to the team's efforts on a "how to" approach for decisional memo drafting on specific scenarios for Yemen in particular and U.S. posture on the Arabian peninsula. Prepared ideas for longer-term projects on Syria, Iraq, and the broader African presence of the U.S. military and guidance for clear decision-making on objectives for the U.S. Government. Show less



U.S. Department of State

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Adviser to the US Ambassador to the United Nations

  • Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Manage the UN Economic and Social Council portfolio, providing policy guidance and leadership to the team in New York, as well as policy efforts within the Department, multilateral missions, and interagency to implement the President’s policy priorities and compete strategically via multilateral diplomacy.• Oversee the China portfolio, coordinating between Washington, New York, and other multilateral missions to combat malign influence; protect U.S. sovereignty and interests; restore principles of good governance, integrity, and transparency to the UN; and ensure the founding principles of the UN are upheld across all organs of the UN from peacekeeping to the Security Council and the General Assembly.• Implement and create policy coordination mechanisms, including managing clearance processes and hosting multiple interagency calls per week to coordinate guidance for negotiators during all UN negotiations and respond to the ongoing activities of the UN; writing and reviewing briefing papers; establishing new policy guidelines; and coalescing action around mechanisms exacting desired outcomes.• Promote U.S. interests and policy priorities within and alongside the UN via creating new strategies, tools, and products to propel ideas and policy forward; coordinating and executing diplomatic engagements, formal negotiations, speeches, events, op-eds, tweets, political declarations, joint statements, resolutions, briefings, meetings, letters, and other engagements.• Represents USUN in National Security Council-led Policy Coordination Committee meetings, as well as in bilateral Washington-based engagements. Show less

• Special Assistant in the International Organizations Bureau Front Office

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

  • Assisted with the operational and policy coordination of the Bureau, working closely with other members of the Bureau’s Front Office staff and Acting Assistant Secretary, helping oversee U.S. foreign and multilateral policy, strategic goals, development, coordination, and implementation• Routinely reviewed a variety of documents, such as memoranda, policy papers, reports, and cables.• Helped produce Congressionally mandated reports, including participating in data collection, editing, and drafting of the report on American Citizen employment in multilateral organizations.• Participated in the 64th annual Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, attending the third reading and final round of negotiations of the political declaration adopted on the first day of the CSW gathering, providing policy support and expertise to our lead U.S. negotiator, holding bilateral meetings to negotiate with other States, and editing output documents including our U.S. national statement, official explanation of position (EOP), and instruction cables to the U.S. Mission. Show less



U.S. House of Representatives

• United States
• Legislative Offices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legislative Director

  • Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Helped establish the Member’s office, creating processes and protocol for office and legislative operations, training front office and legislative teams, and developing a strategic policy plan.• Oversaw the Member’s engagement in the legislative process – including bill drafting, committee markups and hearings, managing policy meetings with stakeholders, creating policies for managing input from the district – floor process and activity, vote recommendations, and products from the policy team.• Staffed the Member on Budget and Veteran Affairs Committees in hearings and markups.• Covered national security, trade, and financial services issues, representing the office and managing relationships with Joint-Base San Antonio, Brooke Army Medical Center, other equities in San Antonio (Military City USA), headquarters of the Texas National Guard, and Army Futures Command in Austin. Show less

• Deputy Legislative Director, Military Legislative Assistant, and Budget Associate

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019



The Conservative Partnership Institute

• Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assistant Director for Policy

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Drafted weekly newsletter, tweets, memos, blog posts, briefing papers, and op-eds on a variety of policy topics including national security, foreign policy, criminal justice reform, energy, and regulatory reform. • Assisted in staffing the Executive Branch and Members of Congress with talented policy staffers, including running the 2018-midterm election cycle candidate outreach efforts to incoming Members. • Developed curricula and helped implement trainings for graduate level seminars for Hill staffers and policy professionals on policy process and Congressional floor tactics across a range of topics and issues. Show less



United States Senate

• Legislative Offices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Military and Foreign Affairs Legislative Assistant

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Advised the Senator on defense, foreign relations, intelligence, veteran affairs, religious liberties, and related matters.• Drafted legislation, speeches, op-eds, talking points, vote recommendations, briefing papers, and memos.• Developed new policy initiatives, legislation, amendments, and floor processes for the national security and foreign policy portfolio for authorizing bills,spending measures, and nominations, also managing the annual National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal years 2017-2019.• Managed a legislative correspondent and intern who assisted with the national security portfolio Show less

• Legislative Correspondent for Defense and Foreign Relations

  • Feb 2016 - Jul 2017

  Spear-heading State Department oversight and accountability initiatives for Senator Lee, drafting letters, memos, and conducting meetings, focusing on democracy and governance programmingResponsible for creating outgoing correspondence pertaining to veterans issues, defense, foreign relations, and related topics and keeping interns and other staffers briefed and updated on messaging and key issues Prepare memorandums and other briefing materials on various topics pertaining to the issues under the jurisdiction of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Senator and senior staffDraft remarks and hearing questions for the Senator in preparation for full and subcommittee hearings, conducting background research on previous legislation, agency programs, GAO and CBO reports, news articles, and staff briefings Assist in preparation of speeches and other communications items, working in conjunction with senior staff Assist in overall development of legislation and policy ideas, working with Congressional colleagues, senior staff and the Senate office of legislative counsel Assist in preparing the Senator for meetings and also take meetings with various stakeholder groups Show less



U.S. House of Representatives

• United States
• Legislative Offices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Legislative Correspondent

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Communicated with over 200,000 constituents on behalf of the Member, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, through email, postcards, and letters - both proactive and reactively Responsible for outgoing correspondence – emails, newsletters, postcards, phone calls, and letters, writing, researching, and editing all materials; Created a new targeted messaging system for rural counties to receive postcards; Expanding and increasing precision on targeted messaging for urban counties; Approximately 500 outgoing correspondences and 9,998 postcards per weekRedeveloped weekly, monthly, and quarterly metrics for reports upon switching database vendors, optimizing and cleaning data, creating new target outreach groups and audiences, and proactively growing these groups by new tagging methods; Manage a large constituent contact database of 200,000 peopleSupervised a team of interns who assist with mail management Show less

• Staff Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  Managed constituent services, scheduling 25 trips to Washington, DC per month with multiple tours per group; processing weekly flag requests and accounting for payments; assigning constituent casework to district staff daily; and managing incoming telephone and mail communications Managed front office and incoming meetings, as well as the office’s intern program, training 3 interns on constituent request management software, phone etiquette, tour procedures, mail processes, and basic office maintenance and operations; interview and evaluate intern candidates 3 times annually Tracked and maintained performance data for quarterly and annual reports focusing on press metrics, collecting data on press releases, hits, and media coverage; Track voting record using congressional databases such as the Legislative Information System (LIS) and Cognress.gov; Gather data on legislation co-sponsorships, maintaining records through the legislative session Show less

• Congressional Intern

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2014

  Assisted staff with constituent correspondence and requests Attended committee hearings on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security and wrote memos for legislative staff Attended intern lectures and events on international relations and related issues



Texas A&M University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant Researcher, the Bush School of Government and Public Service

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

  Assisted the office of communications and external relations with annual publications such as semi-annual online and print newsletters; recruitment and program-related brochures; event flyers, posters, and programs; and department documents such as strategic plans and award submissions Wrote news articles for web and print on distinguished guests and special events at the Bush School on a weekly basis, interviewing such personalities as Gen. Brent Scowcroft, the Afghani Ambassador to Australia, and the CEO of Southwest Airlines. Wrote comprehensive program plans for media strategy and measured key performance indicators for communications department to report based on metrics obtained through various data sources Assisted the office of career and student services with planning and hosting career events for students Maintained online student portal by entering data, pulling reports, and generating weekly newsletter for 300 students Researched employment statistics of past classes of students Provided proposals for website and web content as well as developed new web articles and resources Show less



U.S. Department of State

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Virtual Student Foreign Service Intern

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

  Researched policy and trafficking in persons around the world to write summaries on current trends in trafficking and its effects domestically and abroad, focusing on the impact of legalizing prostituion Assist publications manager with projects supporting the annual Trafficking in Persons Report Researched policy and trafficking in persons around the world to write summaries on current trends in trafficking and its effects domestically and abroad, focusing on the impact of legalizing prostituion Assist publications manager with projects supporting the annual Trafficking in Persons Report



International Justice Mission

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Government Relations Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Created 3-5 yr. strategic plan for the USG to establish a comprehensive slavery eradication program (CSEP) by proving success of IJM projects and convincing federal agencies to adopt IJM’s model Developed program logic model of International Justice Mission’s 4-part collaborative casework model and capacity building program to show how their methods achieve a reduction in violence and trafficking in persons over time. Studied possible performance indicators and measures for impact evaluation and the above-mentioned program logic model – indicators that would convince others that IJM’s model is replicable at different levels studying past evaluations; prevalence studies; and case studies of IJM and other NGO’s Planned and executed advocacy initiatives, managing grassroots constituency across the nation via social media and postcard campaigns involving hundreds of participants Facilitated advocacy summit for 240 constituents in Washington, DC and 300 constituents for an in-district campaign as part of a cumulative, nation-wide lobbying effort for anti-trafficking legislation Show less



Fossil Group, Inc.

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Representative

  • Nov 2012 - Jun 2013

  Sales representative for Fossil, serving customers, managing merchandise, and communicating product knowledge. Sales representative for Fossil, serving customers, managing merchandise, and communicating product knowledge.



The Battalion

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• City Desk Assistant Editor

  • Jun 2011 - Dec 2012

  Edited story copy every day submitted from reporters assigned to cover local and national news events using Associated Press style Coordinated desk meetings and managed a 9 member reporting staff to produce content on national and international affairs on a weekly basis, publishing approximately 20 articles in the fall semester Planned content to reach an audience of 50,000 students and 20,000 faculty and staff 5 days a week Served as member of The Battalion Policy Improvement Team, developing an organizational flow chart and amending standard operating procedures Show less



U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Education Department Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Jun 2011

  Planned and hosted events and programs for students and educators from across the State of Texas, incorporating more than 90,000 program participants in live and distance education programs Developed programs and curricula for students through storytelling events, museum visits, and classroom activities, using primary source documentation from the National Archives Planned and hosted events and programs for students and educators from across the State of Texas, incorporating more than 90,000 program participants in live and distance education programs Developed programs and curricula for students through storytelling events, museum visits, and classroom activities, using primary source documentation from the National Archives