Experience

Berkeley Free Clinic

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Medic

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  The BFC offers STI, TB, HIV, UTI, and Hepatitis testing, consultation, and treatment. We also offer flu shots, acute care for burns and wounds, and health insurance and food benefit navigation, all at no cost to the client! I am proud to work with the Berkeley Free Clinic and really believe in their motto "Healthcare for People, not Profit"! I have completed my training period and am now working to provide telehealth to clients and create a supplementary sex education program that can be used by local schools.



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mixed@Berkeley Community Development Director

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  I work with the Mixed Recruitment and Retention Center at UC Berkeley. I create programming to engage the Mixed community on campus with University funding. My programming is mostly educational, and some of the programming I have created is: - "Food & Identity"- presentation by Nicole Leopardo about her master's thesis discussing how mixed families mix foods. Leopardo is a lecturer at San Francisco State University - "Curly Hair Chronicles 2.0"- I helped execute this event that was designed for curly headed individuals to get their hands on some hair products and learn about taking care of their textured hair. -"Painting and Palestine"- This was a collaborative event with the community organizations MENARRC, Bears for Palestine, and the Palestine Decal. This event was designed to help the MRRC community learn about how we as the mixed community could be more helpful and educated allies to the Palestinian movement. -Self Defense Workshop- This was a collaboration with MENARRC. Palestinian and Arab students had several instances of being attacked (verbally and physically) on campus so we collaborated to create this workshop to give students more confidence when walking around campus. My time with MRRC has been really lovely, I have learned to take pride in my mixed Persian/Polish Identity and am really happy that I am involved with community organizing again.



URAP

• Berkeley, California, United States

• URAP Research Intern- Climate Change's Disproportionate Impact on Women of the Global South

  • Feb 2020 - Mar 2020

  Poor women of color feel the effects of climate change most deeply while wealthy companies, countries, and people are responsible for the grand majority of emissions and pollution causing this climate crisis. I took this internship because I am interested in hearing from climate change activists based in the communities they serve and aiding women of color around the globe in their activism. The most powerful thing I learned from this experience is that collective organizing has the power to shift perspectives, and that grassroots activism can create tangible change in communities. For this research position I transcribed interviews with climate activists, coded them for easy reference and data analytics, and completed a final summary project. I worked with Julie Gorecki and Rachel Morello Frosch.



San Diego Miramar College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Emergency Medical Technician Certification

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  I began my training to become an EMT at Miramar college in June 2019 and finished in August 2019. I concluded the class with a grade of A+ and scored perfectly on all of my practical skill testings. After passing my National Registry EMT exam I became a certified EMT in Alameda County, CA. I hope to start work or a volunteer position using this certification over the Summer of 2020 and become a licensed ambulance driver. In addition to my BLS EMT certification, I have also completed my FEMA training for mass casualty incidents, special hazardous environments, and have additional training on blood glucose testing and special airways like the king airway. I have completed 48 hours of in-hospital emergency room rotations and have hands-on experience with patient care and skills like vital taking, CPR, and patient transport.



Sharp Grossmont Foundation

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Shadow of a Cardiac Electrophysiologist

  • May 2019 - Aug 2019

  About 144 hours total. Completed with Dr. Alborz Hassankhani. Procedures witnessed: loop recorder insertion, loop recorder removal, coronary angioplasties, ICD insertion, SICD insertion, single chamber, dual chamber, and biventricular pacemaker insertion, bubble study, echocardiogram, angiogram, cardioversion I am now familiar with many kinds of heart medications such as anticoagulants, antiplatelets, and antiarrhythmic drugs. I understand how they work, common prescription timelines, and their drawbacks and benefits. I have some practice reading and placing EKG leads to identify different disorders such as Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, left and right bundle branch blocks, AV block, total heart block, Brugada syndrome, premature ventricular contractions, premature atrial contractions, tachycardia, bradycardia, atrioventricular asynchrony. I can now read echocardiograms and identify basic problems such as thick heart walls, pericarditis, deteriorating valves/walls, blockages, and backflow, and low ejection fractions. I am comfortable interacting with patients, answering questions to the best of my ability, being honest about when I don’t know something, taking blood pressure, listening for heart and lung sounds, and taking ekgs.



URAP Intern

• Berkeley, CA

• Student Intern

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  In my position at the Ji lab I have grown as a researcher. I now have experience in both designing and troubleshooting experiments, extensive mouse care including breeding, dehydration and food restriction, genotyping (tagging and tailing), head fixing, and MATLAB. I am comfortable running complex experiments on mouse models. MATLAB was used to run the experimental procedure we were executing. While I have not written much MATLAB script I am somewhat familiar with troubleshooting and navigating MATLAB programs.



Dulcis Lab

• UCSD Medical School Department of Psychiatry

• Student Intern

  • Jan 2018 - May 2018

  The project I completed at Dr. Dulcis’ lab was about the effects of THC on dopaminergic cells in the locus coeruleus and prefrontal cortex in fetal mice. At this internship I gained experience with: microtome sectioning, immunohistochemistry/ immunofluorescence, confocal imaging, cell counting, data organization, statistical analysis, pipetting, building stock solutions, ELISA, PCR, and gel electrophoresis. The project I completed at Dr. Dulcis’ lab was about the effects of THC on dopaminergic cells in the locus coeruleus and prefrontal cortex in fetal mice. At this internship I gained experience with: microtome sectioning, immunohistochemistry/ immunofluorescence, confocal imaging, cell counting, data organization, statistical analysis, pipetting, building stock solutions, ELISA, PCR, and gel electrophoresis.