Washington, District of Columbia, United States
I am a Legislative Assistant for Congresswoman Young Kim. I graduated from Yale University in 2023 with a degree in Political Science and a Certificate of Advanced Language Study in Spanish.
Office of Congresswoman Young Kim (CA-40)
Office of Congresswoman Young Kim (CA-40)
Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Fellow in the Office of Congresswoman Young Kim (CA-40)
As Chief Aide, I coordinated office and event schedules as well as led trainings for new aides. In addition, I assisted the Grace Hopper Head of College and Senior Administrative Assistant with any urgent back-end tasks that arose in the College.
• Aided in various clerical and administrative tasks in the Grace Hopper Head of College's office. • Worked residential college events such as College Teas, Study Breaks, Mellon Forums, and Fellows’ dinners. • Assist with the opening of the college and freshman move-in and commencement activities.
• Participated in Dwight Hall at Yale Center for Public Service's Urban Fellows program, in which students work with community leaders to find real solutions to today’s urban challenges. • Created procedures for calculating client demographic and financial information in Excel and R for grants and annual organization progress reports. • Crafted marketing and fundraising campaigns using Mailchimp and Hootsuite, reaching 2600 subscribers. • Maintained social media accounts and assist in website maintenance. • Attended weekly meetings focusing on reflections, dinners, and speaker series. Examples of Past Projects: • Reviewed documents to draft a memo in support of a VA benefits service-connection appeal. • Identified pro bono and DEI initiatives at AmLaw 200 firms, developing a strategy for CVLC to expand their pro bono network. • Compiled and analyzed demographic data on CVLC veterans to secure a $300,000 grant from the CT Bar Foundation.
The Dwight Hall Summer Fellows program offers the unique opportunity for community-engaged students to dedicate themselves to creating social change. This summer, I primarily worked on analyzing other-than-honorable (OTH) discharge data provided by the various branches of service via the Freedom of Information Act to determine if veterans of color were disproportionately awarded OTH discharges compared to White veterans. I used the R programming language to run exploratory data analysis to see if race was a significant variable in discharge distributions. I then drafted reports compiling the data and visualizing it in various tables, plots, and written summaries. I also began to develop pro-bono marketing strategies for CVLC to recruit volunteer attorneys, researching various state and local campaigns to see how our organization could incorporate their methods into our own work. My data analysis was used as the background research for CVLC's November 2022 report "How Racial Disparities in the Military’s Administrative Separation System Harm Black Veterans." The report was published in the Washington Post. CVLC also used my pro bono research to design a volunteer recruitment strategy.
• Interned in the DC Office of Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-50) • Led constituents on historical tours of the US Capitol building • Wrote targeted “499” mailers sent to constituents highlighting the member’s legislative accomplishments • Attended Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committee hearings and mark-ups, as well as the member's press interviews • Took notes in various policy meetings for legislative staff • Listened and responded to constituent phone calls • Escorted visitors through the Capitol for staff meetings
• Awarded a research grant from the Asian American Cultural Center Satoda Scholars Program to conduct original research related to Japanese American incarceration during World War II. • Research Project: "The Model Minority Myth and “Loyalty”: The Consequences of the Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry"