Experience

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  Propel, Inc

  • Remote

  • Senior Manager, Policy & Partnerships

    • Aug 2022 - Present
    • Remote

    Leading state partnerships and communications to help build modern, respectful, and effective financial products and services for low income Americans.

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  Airbnb

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Policy Manager

    • May 2020 - Jun 2022

    Established and managed relationships with state and local government officials, industry associations, and community groups to advance Airbnb's policy priorities.

  • Research Manager

    • Nov 2018 - May 2020

    Led research to understand emerging legislative trends in North America, evaluate past campaign strategies, and formulate policy positions.

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  Place Lab (formerly Build Public)

  • San Francisco, CA

  • Program Manager

    • Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
    • San Francisco, CA

    Place Lab was a non-profit organization that engaged public private partnerships to design, fund and steward high-quality public spaces. In 2018, Place Lab merged with the San Francisco Parks Alliance. I oversaw stewardship programs that piloted innovative public financing tools, and managed relationships with community groups and city agencies.

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  The Asia Foundation

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organization Management
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Program Officer

    • Jan 2015 - Jun 2016

    The Asia Foundation is an international development organization committed to strengthening governance across Asia. I supported program development, communications, and research on climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and urban services. In-country work experience in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Bangladesh.

  • Program Associate

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2014

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Cambridge, MA

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    • Sep 2012 - May 2014
    • Cambridge, MA

    I managed the Rhode Island component of the New England Climate Adaptation Project, an action research and public engagement initiative on municipal climate adaptation planning. Funded by the MIT Science Impact Collaborative.

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  Reconnecting America

  • Oakland, CA

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst

    • Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Oakland, CA

    Reconnecting America is a national non-profit that advanced research and innovative public policy around transit-oriented development. I conducted spatial and statistical analyses to support this work.

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  Princeton in Asia

  • Bangkok, Thailand

  • Research Fellow

    • Aug 2010 - Nov 2011
    • Bangkok, Thailand

    As a Princeton-in-Asia fellow at RECOFTC - an international organization focused on community forestry training and research - I researched the impacts of climate change mitigation schemes on community-based forests. Field work in Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.

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  Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

  • Stanford, CA

  • Cartographer and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst

    • Aug 2009 - Apr 2010
    • Stanford, CA

    To support Stanford faculty and staff research on urban development, I conducted geospatial analyses and designed data visualizations.