Experience

Free Food for Thought

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Podcast Interviewer

  • Sep 2019 - May 2020

  Claremont McKenna College Free Food for Thought (FF4F) is a student-run podcast that aims to connect college students with thought leaders who speak at the Claremont McKenna Athenaeum Interviewed Katherine B. Forrest, former US District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Stanford economist John B. Taylor, and a number of award winning journalists, scholars and authors including Alex Kotlowitz, Nick Sousanis, and Jonathan Rauch



Financial Economics Institute at CMC

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Analyst

  • Sep 2018 - May 2020

  Claremont McKenna College Tested a strategy using subset optimization to develop portfolios of securities otherwise susceptible to problems of dimensionality Wrote Matlab code to test the strategy on datasets and used cross-validation methods to optimize the strategy’s input parameters



Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Management Scholar

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  San Francisco, California, United States 11-week summer internship on bank examination team with same responsibilities as other FDIC professionals Examined three banks with assets between $10 billion and $100 billion Evaluated bank operations, business planning, risk management strategies, and consumer protection practices Led meetings with and provided informal recommendations to senior bank management



Lowe Institute of Political Economy

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  Claremont McKenna College Worked on the Lowe-Chapman Inland Empire Consumer Sentiment Index Developed new survey questions to help understand the abnormally low consumer sentiment in Los Angeles Wrote code in R to automate the process of transforming survey data into useful results Prepared video presentations explaining the circumstances underlying changes in consumer sentiment



Claremont McKenna College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Public Policy Lab Manager for Government Department

  • Sep 2017 - May 2019

  Research assistant for the Multi-District Litigation Project for RAND Corporation, supervising a group of 3-4 students to source data Teaching assistant for GOVT100, helping students devise coding schemes and write public policy memos

• Department Tutor for Robert Day School of Economics and Finance

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  Provided individual tutoring in introductory economics Taught group tutoring sessions in introductory accounting



The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp Participant

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2018

  Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Intensive, one-week immersion program in US national and international public policy featuring world-renowned scholars and political figures in economics, government, political science, and other related fields, including economist, John Taylor, and former Secretary of State, George P. Schultz Participants collaborated through class discussions, study groups, and team projects on diverse topics ranging from the merits of various teacher pay schemes to the proper discount rate for… Show more Intensive, one-week immersion program in US national and international public policy featuring world-renowned scholars and political figures in economics, government, political science, and other related fields, including economist, John Taylor, and former Secretary of State, George P. Schultz Participants collaborated through class discussions, study groups, and team projects on diverse topics ranging from the merits of various teacher pay schemes to the proper discount rate for calculating required pension fund contributions Show less



The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student in senior/graduate level courses

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  London, United Kingdom Real Analysis: This class focused on the properties of real numbers, specifically showing convergence, compactness, completeness, continuity, and convexity for functions within various metric spaces. Quantamentals: This class lies at the intersection of fundamental accounting and data science. We use accounting knowledge to develop hypotheses for determinants of stock returns and use them to thereby create models to predict stock returns. Introduction to Data Science and Big… Show more Real Analysis: This class focused on the properties of real numbers, specifically showing convergence, compactness, completeness, continuity, and convexity for functions within various metric spaces. Quantamentals: This class lies at the intersection of fundamental accounting and data science. We use accounting knowledge to develop hypotheses for determinants of stock returns and use them to thereby create models to predict stock returns. Introduction to Data Science and Big Data Analytics: This class primarily focused on developing proficiency in R and implementing supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. For example, we used topic models to analyze millions of speeches. We also learned web scraping and how to work with various APIs in order to gather such texts. Show less



Roosevelt Institute

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

• Issue Leader for Environmental Policy

  • Sep 2017 - May 2018

  Claremont, CA Founding member of the 5Cs chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a collaborative effort across 140 college campuses to promote understanding of political and societal issues and advocacy for progressive policy solutions at the federal, state, and local level Leader of the environmental policy group; conducted research on California water rights



Claremont Radius

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Staff Writer

  • Sep 2016 - May 2018

  Claremont, CA Student publication providing in-depth analysis on issues related to politics, economics, philosophy, and international relations Wrote articles on the Syrian refugee crisis, the merits of carbon tax vs. cap and trade, mandatory paternity leave, caps on executive compensation, and US support for the creation of Kurdistan



Yonsei University

• South Korea
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Claremont McKenna Yonsei Summer Program

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Seoul, Korea A 6-week summer program focused on understanding the “Asian Miracle” through the study of Korea’s history, culture and economy; attended by 10 CMC students and 10 Yonsei students



Emory University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Castle Chess Camp Counselor

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2017

  Atlanta, GA Staff for intensive chess training camp for top students held at Emory University; student entry to the camp requires a minimum USCF rating of 1200 with an average rating of 1700



Freedom School Partners

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chess Instructor

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Charlotte, NC Taught chess to 50 disabled or disadvantaged students with one other teacher plus 6 assistants; taught students critical thinking and how it could be applied beyond the chess board



University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Model United Nations Delegate

  • Sep 2014 - May 2016

  Charlotte, NC 2016 Harvard World Model UN Collegiate Conference in Rome, Italy; 2014, 2015, and 2016 Southern Regional Model UN (SRMUN) Collegiate Conference in Atlanta, GA; Named Outstanding Delegate at SRMUN Collegiate Conference all three years