Experience

Boston Network for International Development (BNID)

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  I serve as a Board Member for the Boston Network for International Development, working specifically to support their programming work. I serve as a Board Member for the Boston Network for International Development, working specifically to support their programming work.



Harvard Medical School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  I work within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine to support the work of Drs. Vikram Patel and Giuseppe Raviola in building a global mental health initiative across Harvard and the world. I work within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine to support the work of Drs. Vikram Patel and Giuseppe Raviola in building a global mental health initiative across Harvard and the world.



MGH Institute of Health Professions

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Psychiatric NP Candidate

  • Sep 2018 - May 2021

  I completed my nurse practitioner degree specializing in psychiatric mental health care. This degree will enable me to work clinically with patients with mental health and substance use concerns, providing both therapy and medication prescription/management. I completed my nurse practitioner degree specializing in psychiatric mental health care. This degree will enable me to work clinically with patients with mental health and substance use concerns, providing both therapy and medication prescription/management.



Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• COVID-19 Relief RN

  • Apr 2020 - May 2020

  Served as an RN at Boston Health Care for the Homeless clinical sites, including Boston Hope Medical Center and tents at Southampton St. homeless shelter. Provided care to COVID-19+ homeless patients, including symptom and vital signs monitoring, detox monitoring including CIWA/COWS, medication reconciliation/administration, patient education, and discharge planning. Served as an RN at Boston Health Care for the Homeless clinical sites, including Boston Hope Medical Center and tents at Southampton St. homeless shelter. Provided care to COVID-19+ homeless patients, including symptom and vital signs monitoring, detox monitoring including CIWA/COWS, medication reconciliation/administration, patient education, and discharge planning.



The Fulbright Program

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2017

  As a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow, I worked with the mental health NGO Sangath based in Goa, India. Throughout the developing world, there is an overwhelming shortage of highly trained mental healthcare workers (such as psychiatrists or psychologists). Sangath has been an innovator in the model of care known as “task-sharing,” in which lay health workers (LHWs, community members with no prior training or qualifications in mental health), are trained to deliver basic mental healthcare in primary healthcare and community settings. My research project focused on evaluating task-sharing in global mental health by conducting interviews with LHWs, with the ultimate goal of improving training and supervision of LHWs in order to provide the highest-quality care to patients.



Partners In Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Community Organizer

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2016

  As Community Organizer at Partners In Health, I support the work of PIH Engage, a grassroots movement advancing the right to health. I work one-on-one to coach more than 100 volunteer community organizers across the country to implement a yearlong campaign including fundraising, political advocacy, and education objectives.

• Community Engagement Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

  Work with the National PIH | Engage Team at Partners In Health to develop the campaigns and training material for this coming year of PIH | Engage.

• Community Coordinator

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

  Founded Brown University's first PIH | Engage student group. Goals: Build and engage the local community to learn about and advocate for health as a human right, fundraise to further Partners in Health’s programmatic goals.



Health Leads

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

• Advocate

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2013

  Organization Goal: break the link between poverty and poor health by “prescribing” resources to patients. Duties: Staff a desk at the Hasbro Children’s Hospital for 2.5 hours weekly, meet with clients in the pediatrics clinic and provide them with leads to resources that will improve their health status such as SNAP (Food Stamps), heating assistance, legal help, government programs, shelters, and others. A minimum of 4.5 hours of follow-up with clients required through phone, email, in-person meetings. Average load is 7 clients with various issues.



Writing Fellows Program

• Brown University

• Writing Fellow

  • Sep 2011 - May 2013

  Program: Fellows are paired with one university course and several other freshman writers. By application only. Duties: Send electronic comments and conference in-person for every essay for each student, mentor as necessary Program: Fellows are paired with one university course and several other freshman writers. By application only. Duties: Send electronic comments and conference in-person for every essay for each student, mentor as necessary



Amnesty International USA

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Immigrants' Rights Campaign Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Assist with all campaign needs: draft blog posts for publication on the Amnesty International website, update social media, write issue briefs, brainstorm organizing and activism ideas, attend and plan meetings, correspond with relevant staff and members. I was the project manager for the first Immigrants’ Rights Activist Toolkit, published on Amnesty's website here: www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/federal_toolkit_final.pdf Assist with all campaign needs: draft blog posts for publication on the Amnesty International website, update social media, write issue briefs, brainstorm organizing and activism ideas, attend and plan meetings, correspond with relevant staff and members. I was the project manager for the first Immigrants’ Rights Activist Toolkit, published on Amnesty's website here: www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/federal_toolkit_final.pdf



Professor Stephen McGarvey

• Brown University

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

  Project: Samoa/American Samoa study on the impact of community health workers on the management of Type II diabetes Duties: Analyze data using SPSS statistical software, report findings to various professors and project contributors, evaluate findings within the context of the study. Project: Samoa/American Samoa study on the impact of community health workers on the management of Type II diabetes Duties: Analyze data using SPSS statistical software, report findings to various professors and project contributors, evaluate findings within the context of the study.



Professors Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi

• Tamil Nadu, India

• Research Assistant

  • Apr 2011 - Aug 2011

  Project: South India Community Study. A randomized control trial studying social solidarity within castes and its impact on the DOT provider system, a treatment method for tuberculosis. Institutional collaboration between Brown University, Tuberculosis Research Center (Chennai, India), and Christian Medical College (Vellore, India) Duties: Daily collaboration with Professors Luke and Munshi as well as local project contributors and field workers/interviewers, survey design and testing, field expeditions (rural villages, government facilities), design and test a new time-use instrument, train interviewers, relevant literature reviews, logistics planning.