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Peace CorpsVirtual Service Pilot Participant
Oct. 2024 - Apr. 2025Ethiopia• Co-developing branding manual and digital marketing strategy for Egna Le Egna, an NGO that addresses sexual/reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, Gender Based Violence, economic empowerment for young people and women in Ethiopia, helping them realize their full potential. • Digital Marketing/Project Design & Management: Assess organization’s current digital presence and weaknesses, develop digital marketing strategy and branding manual • Social media: Design social media pages and make social media posts • Web Design and Development: Designing and building organization’s website • Workshop Design: Develop and deliver digital marketing training workshops to staff members/volunteers
YPFP (Young Professionals in Foreign Policy)Publications Fellow - Director, Rising Experts Program
Aug. 2024Washington DC-Baltimore Area• Operations: One of six fellows guiding YPFP's mission to oversee programming for global membership (1,300+ members) • Program Management - Interviewing and Selecting Candidates: Choosing 30 Rising Experts, shortlisting applicants out of several hundred applications and conducting interviews on 18 expertise topics (ie. international development, human rights) • Overseeing team of 55 people (Experts, editors, Assistant Managing Editors) through editing and publishing 100+ articles • Program Design/Evaluation: Created 2025 strategic plan, defined program goals w/metrics (OKRs), tracking metrics in Quarterly Reports • Media Relations: Overseeing new partnerships w/ nonprofits, think tanks, and publications • Overseeing collaboration w/ YPFP Discussion Groups, where Experts present research and writing
YPFP (Young Professionals in Foreign Policy)Communications Officer
Apr. 2024 - Dec. 2024• Created/edited video (6 mins), series of short videos for 20th Anniversary Gala promotion. Screened at Gala event to 130+ people • Drafted posts for Rising Expert Program announcements
International Rescue Committee Los AngelesEmployment Volunteer
Apr. 2024 - Feb. 2025Glendale, California, United States• Assist Employment Specialist in establishing relationships with potential employers and securing jobs for refugee clients: represent IRC at job fairs, call community organizations to identify job resources, compile and update database of jobs hiring • Co-design and lead monthly "Job Club" sessions, a forum where clients can talk about and their job search and brainstorm or learn about job search strategies • Edit communications materials (ie. flyers for Job Club, employment info sessions) on Canva
YPFP (Young Professionals in Foreign Policy)Assistant Managing Editor (AME)
Apr. 2023 - Jan. 2025• Editing: Lead editing process for 3-4 Experts at a time (edit 1st and final drafts, connecting Experts w/ editors for intermediary drafts) • Media Relations: Identify outlets, pitch articles, work w/ outlet editors • Edited/pitched 20 op-eds published in The Diplomat, Inkstick Media, Geopolitical Monitor, Fair Observer, Diplomatic Courier
Slated, Inc.Story Analyst
Nov. 2021 - May. 2023• Coverage on 140+ scripts Slated is an online film packaging and financing marketplace, matching projects with talent, financing, and distribution. Since launching in 2012, Slated’s community has grown to 50,000 producers, writers, directors, actors, investors, sales agents and distributors. In 2020, 66% of Academy Award nominated films and 80% of Sundance films were made by Slated members.
The Organization for World Peace (OWP)Crisis Index Advisor to West/South Africa
May. 2021 - Dec. 2021• Monitored human rights news to update Crisis Index on Boko Haram and Mozambique Insurgencies
The Organization for World Peace (OWP)Correspondent/Senior Correspondent
Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2021• Writer of weekly articles (15 total) on global news: focus on government corruption, human rights and free speech violations, refugees in Europe/Eastern Europe • Peer edited fellow correspondents’ articles
Cold Iron PicturesDevelopment Intern
Nov. 2019 - Apr. 2020Los Angeles Metropolitan Area• Coverage/notes on feature screenplays, including “The Inspection” (2022 Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, distributed by A24) • Compiled database of films being screened at Sundance
American Red CrossAmeriCorps Youth Coordinator
Nov. 2016 - Aug. 2017San Francisco Bay Area• Assisted in drafting, editing, and publishing monthly regional volunteer newsletter • Made video w/ Youth Executive Board on disaster preparedness seen by Bay Area high school clubs • Supervised and mentored Youth Executive Board/youth volunteers on planning programming and events across 22 Bay Area high school clubs
Pretty Matches/HBODevelopment Intern
Sep. 2014 - Dec. 2014New York City Metropolitan Area• Coverage/notes on TV pilots and novels, including "Dry Land" by Ruby Rae Spiegel, a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play • Compiled list of directors in consideration for TV show "Divorce" starring Sarah Jessica Parker
MediaGlobalVideographer/Writer
Jun. 2013 - Sep. 2013United Nations, New York• MediaGlobal is a media agency creating awareness of poverty, disease, hunger, and the impact of climate change in the least developed countries • Filmed and edited videos of UN conferences (UN Youth Initiatives, General Assembly); conducted video interviews with diplomats at the UN, conservation experts and professors in Kenya • Wrote articles on youth in the Post-2015 Development Agenda & conservation/development in Kenya
BICE (Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance)Stagiaire
Jan. 2013 - May. 2013Paris, Île-de-France, France• BICE is an international organization promoting children's rights around the world • Conducted English-French translation for organization's website • Reviewed films for organization's film festival
Spectre Productions, LLCDirector
Jun. 2012Spectre Productions creates human interest narrative and documentary films which have been recognized by 60+ film festivals, including Academy Award-Qualifying Austin Film Festival, Canadian Screen Award-Qualifying Toronto Black Film Festival, and BAFTA-Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island Film Festival. • Festivals: Austin (Student Jury Award nomination), Bushwick, Pasadena, Big Apple, Socially Relevant (SR), Nevada Women's, NewFilmmakers NY, Princeton Indie, Ft. Lauderdale, Dam Short, SENE, Anchorage, La Femme, Woods Hole, Ft. Myers Beach, Ft. Myers, Toronto Black Film Festival; Semi-Finalist: Flicker's RI • Awards: Nevada Women's (Outstanding LGBTQ+ Film), Chhatrapati Shivaji (Best Editing) NARRATIVE PROJECTS: • "The Voice Within" (Anthology Feature In Development) - Writer, Director: Four women of different ages, races, and geographies across the US must confront internal and societal bi-erasure before finally acting upon their suppressed bisexuality. • "Down With You" (Short) - Director, Editor • "Unforgotten" (Short) - Editor • "Aurora" (Short) - Writer/Director, Co-Editor • "Qafas" (Short) - Director: Rising tensions within and outside their home threaten to tear a family apart during the Syrian War. • "Dance and Deal" (Short) - Writer/Director • "Forgive Me" (Short) - Director • "The Pretty People" (Short) - Writer/Director DOCUMENTARIES: • "Nana" - Director • "Sex Sells" (Short) - Producer, Co-Director: The current debate on decriminalization of prostitution in the US, made through Chapman Community Voices Seminar. • "Nature's Nurturers" (Short) - Co-Director, Co-Editor: Maasai students participate in Conservation Clubs in Laikipia, Kenya, made through Princeton Global Seminar. • "Alexander is a Legacy" (Short) - Producer, Director, Editor: A young gay man's story of his struggle to have his late mother accept his sexuality, made in USC summer doc course.
Brave New FilmsIntern
Jun. 2012 - Aug. 2012Los Angeles, California, United States
Self-Employed ActorActor
Jun. 2011• Freelance actor - short films (Chapman grad/independent), theater (Rimovision, Powerhouse/NY Stage and Film), radio (numerous US stations), music video (Kendall Parke), notable background - "Babylon" dir. Damien Chazelle • Trained in studios in NY (HB Studio, Lee Strasberg Institute, T. Schreiber Studio) and LA (Playhouse West, Sanford Meisner Center's 2-year program) • Resident actor for RimoVision Group, a non-profit theater company • Acting Apprentice in Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Program through NY Stage and Film • Reader for 250+ auditions/rehearsals on WeAudition
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