New York, New York, United States
Senior Legal Project Assistant supporting the Asset and Corporate Finance practice group at K&L Gates. Works with team of attorneys in representing institutional lenders and loan portfolio servicers in a variety of financial transactions.
Awarded the highly selective Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship that develops the personal, professional and cultural potential of remarkable students to become effective and humane leaders. Selection criteria include leadership, ability to work in teams, ambition, openness to new perspectives and communication skills, academic excellence, and integrity.
Coached fellow students through writing for different courses, including discipline-specific content. Taught four workshops per month on various aspects of the writing process, open to all John Jay students
During my internship with Resilient Cities Catalyst, I explored feasible models of neighborhood governance and sustainable funding mechanisms to develop recommendations for a “Neighborhood Improvement District” in Brownsville, Brooklyn. I also provided support on four large virtual convenings over Zoom, accounting for technical difficulties and taking notes for review. Additionally, I had the opportunity to work with data analysis this summer. I compiled and synthesized county-level data on the public health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to pinpoint regions whose data displayed interesting patterns or held compelling narratives. Furthermore, I created surveys to be distributed to Tampa city officials to evaluate their priorities in promoting systems-level change and synthesized the results for use by the Mayor’s office.
While working at Open Society Foundations, I collaborated with the Senior Officer for Research at the Open Society Justice Initiative, organizing informational reports on strategic litigation regarding human rights and climate change. In this work, I synthesized documents on climate change to identify potential points of entry for litigation against breaches of climate agreements. Additionally, I generated memos to familiarize senior members of the Justice Initiative with context for the International Bar Association’s annual conference and developed a broader worldview through researching and writing two original blog posts on new human rights judgments in Southern Africa.