
About
✨ Fascinated by civic technology + human-centered design
🌱 Always appreciative to connect, share, and learn
⚡ Enthusiastic about the GSW Warriors, lower case letters, and fintech
Awards
Awarded a $2,500 merit-based scholarship for my educational journey from my Assemblymember, Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
Selected out of my junior class (1 out of 700+) by the judgment of faculty for “exhibiting high academic achievement, intense intellectual curiosity, and love of learning.”
Selected by Bank of America's Executives for my aptitude in computing along with my dedication to close the gender gap in technology
Recognized by PayPal's Executive Team for my efforts with my organization, KoderKids, and my blog, HerStoryCreated
Selected nationally (8 out of 180+) for an expenses-paid trip to conduct STEM research in Panama alongside the UN's field biologists and historians
Received an all-expenses-paid scholarship, funded by Melinda Gates, to attend an environmental engineering camp and built a sandbox for an underserved school in Berkeley
Selected by my Congressmember, Mark DeSaulnier, for my app, BrightPath, which provides pedestrians with a safer route to travel, and presented my prototype at the U.S. Capital
Selected (17 out of 150+) to attend an all-expenses-paid computer science + web development program designed for young women by Karlie Kloss
Work Experience
- Coordinated an in-depth, qualitative study to increase US mobile user conversation rates and conducted 20+ interviews
- Selected as the company's youngest intern and represented the customer's voice to influence product strategy
- Developed a nicotine-prevention curriculum alongside a team of researchers and psychologists and reached over 21,000 public middle and high schoolers
- Collaborated on social media campaigns with a branding agency to educate teenagers about the harms of nicotine and served on the university's advisory board for the initiative
- Created a virtual, no-cost start-up incubator alongside 3 Cornell graduates for 280 students who lost their internships due to the onset of the pandemic
- Interviewed 16 student founders from Cornell University to highlight their narratives in ORIGIN’s weekly newsletter
- Revitalized the website’s text to bridge the knowledge gap for consumers, which has reached thousands of consumers
- Created the script for Wyre’s weekly podcast episodes and reported to the CEO & CFO on a bi-weekly basis
Volunteering
- Coordinated numerous volunteer onboarding events and analyzed past voter turnout trends for the Marketing team
- Designed 25+ email templates for the Internal Communications Team and assembled the Youth for Yang Outreach Committee
- Assisted with the youth research committee and analyzed numerous survey results from daily subscribers and students
- Provided content feedback to the Editorial team and collaborated on several social justice and advocacy columns
- Appeared in four films to educate parents, legislators, and teachers on the impacts of e-cigarettes and cannabis
- Presented at numerous conferences in the Bay Area to inform middle school students on the harms of various substances and facilitated mentorship circles in conjunction with the Contra Costa County’s Office of Education
- Launched Computer Science classes to expose underrepresented groups to the field of computer science and formed three chapters by receiving materials from organizations, such as Google and Zynga
- Designed a curriculum based on Scratch and Python with 32 interactive lessons and mentored 180+ students at no-cost
Education
A serendipitous mélange of Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, and User-Experience Design + Research.
GPA: 4.4 | Recipient of the PTSA Scholarship