experience
In January 2020, I began working as an Advertising Operations Associate at Rising Tide Interactive in Washington, DC. Rising Tide Interactive works with Democratic and progressive campaigns, committees, PACs, and nonprofits to develop and implement the digital strategies that win races and create change. Since 2011, they have worked with clients like Sens. Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, and Kyrsten Sinema, Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, FWD.us, the Southern Poverty Law Center, DCCC, DGA, DLCC, and the LGBTQ Victory Fund.
On the forensics team, students focus on issues related to social justice, social innovation and communicative theory. We then conduct research and construct a 10 minute memorized performances to be competed with at tournaments around the country.
In 2017, me and my duo partner were awarded the national championship in Duo Interpretation & our team ranked in the top 3 of the nation for the past 10 years.
Since 2015, in addition to competing, I have been the webmaster and historian for the team since my freshman year, which requires me to edit and maintain our website (seen below), produce videos for our events, take pictures at our competition, manage media and online social networking, on top of being an active competing team member and in 2019, captain of the team, when I was awarded 2nd in the nation in Communication Analysis. As of July 2020, I have been coaching students for the GMU Speech team in Communication Analysis and Prose Interpretation for a year.
In 2017, me and my duo partner were awarded the national championship in Duo Interpretation & our team ranked in the top 3 of the nation for the past 10 years.
Since 2015, in addition to competing, I have been the webmaster and historian for the team since my freshman year, which requires me to edit and maintain our website (seen below), produce videos for our events, take pictures at our competition, manage media and online social networking, on top of being an active competing team member and in 2019, captain of the team, when I was awarded 2nd in the nation in Communication Analysis. As of July 2020, I have been coaching students for the GMU Speech team in Communication Analysis and Prose Interpretation for a year.
I attended GMIF in high school my junior and senior year, which encouraged me to attend George Mason University to study Public Administration and the Nonprofit Sector with the College of Integrative Studies. The passion for youth programming stems from my own enrollment and continued involvement and employment at the George Mason Institute of Forensics, a summer camp that delved into the world of competitive acting and speaking for middle and high school students for two weeks in Fairfax, Virginia on George Mason University's campus every July. Learn more about GMIF at the website below, that I designed and managed as historian.
Epicure Cafe was a family-owned and collectively-led arts space, restaurant and lounge in Fairfax, VA. In 2018, I briefly worked as a server at Epicure Cafe. In 2022, it shut down. As previously stated on their website, Epicure Cafe was
"home to a vibrant and affirming creative community spanning the greater DC Metro area, rooted in a culture of inclusivity, respect and kindness that cultivates learning, invites vulnerability, and waters the seeds of artistic growth."
"home to a vibrant and affirming creative community spanning the greater DC Metro area, rooted in a culture of inclusivity, respect and kindness that cultivates learning, invites vulnerability, and waters the seeds of artistic growth."
According to their website, "The mission of She-EO®, LLC is to provide tools and training to help young ladies lead and succeed in life and in business. Because even though women are starting more businesses, they are not GROWING their businesses, they are not receiving INVESTMENT equal to their male-owned counterparts and they are not being invited to join boards or being PAID their fair share." In 2018, I worked as a program assistant for She-E-O.
In 2018, I was the George Mason High School's Assistant Speech Coach. Around the same time, I became and still am an Aloha English Teacher, teaching Reading and Writing to grade school children weekly.
Starting in 2017, I worked as a teaching artist at Split this Rock, where I performed at Hyperbole 2018 as a featured college poet and got insight on the process of founding the first ever permanent traveling slam poetry team for George Mason to compete at CUPSI. Split this Rock's mission helped cultivate a passion for youth-directed art programs.
