Professional Experience

 My two internships so far have a star by them. 

In this role, I complete a broad range of administrative/operational tasks. My responsibilities for this role include travel planning, groceries, personal finances, yearly taxes, schedule management, and wedding planning.

My second internship was a research position at the Center for Inclusive Computing. The Center focuses on data-backed and systemic policy to increase representation of underserved communities in computer science. Currently, we serve 160+ schools to increase opportunity for marginalized students in technology.

My specific role was measuring KPIs for the institution, drafting research based policy prescriptions to aid transfer students, and maintaining/analyzing the data provided by our partner schools. My biggest contribution was a full research paper analyzing the opportunities for computer science transfer from all Massachusetts community colleges.

During Fall 2023, I helped organize and held office hours for PHIL 1145: Tech and Human Values. I managed communication for the class, helped facilitate in class activities, and held writing workships to help students think through and clearly write about some of the most important technological dilemmas of our day including AI, gene editing, and privacy.

In this full-time position, I was a research aid to many of the philosophy professors at Northeastern working with the Ethics Institute. In my work, I organized the National tournament for Bioethics Bowl, coded the analysis on the effects of ethics pedagogy in computer Science classes, edited grants, edited a now published book, and researched, wrote, and presented my own research on wild animal ethics at a Cornell undergraduate conference.

I was an original employee for a small Mediterranean restaurant called Village Kabob for which I worked all front of house positions. In my time there, I worked as a runner, a busser, and a waiter whenever and wherever needed. As we onboarded more employees, I was the person who trained them.

In early 2022, a few Northeastern professors and I created the Environmental Ethics Working Group at Northeastern. We are a research coalition that reads current academic work in environmental ethics and discusses them in detail. Themes we have explored include the construction of wilderness (What makes something natural?), wild animal ethics, the ethics of gene editing away malaria, and ecological justice. While discussing, we always aim to turn our findings into some sort of product. Published research of ours can be found in the research button.

Each year, I prep our team for two events: one debate on ethics broadly and one on bioethics. For each semester, our team researched,wrote, and debated 12 - 15 ethical dilemmas from current events. I am one of the founders and captains of the team, working to divide case work and make sure that people get the research assigned to them completed. The Northeastern team also works to develop strong relationships with other schools in the area, including Harvard and Boston College. In my freshman year, I helped form the team and we competed for the first time. Toward the end of college, we began to do well, culminating in competing in nationals for my last semester.

In this position, I organized weekly meetings for a casual philosophy conversation. For the weekly attendance of around 20 people, I facilitated conversation, made reservations for food and rooms, recruited, managed communications, and decided weekly topics. In Spring 2024, I helped organize with 6 other schools within the Boston area to host an informal, intercollegiate philosophy mixer. The turn out was good, totalling about 150 people.

In this working group, we read and discussed papers relating to AI and data ethics. In the past, we have also hosted the Information Ethics Roundtable at Northeastern, which I helped to organize. Past projects include the role of Large Language Models in the classroom, digital metaphysics (are digital objects real?), and simulation theory (what are the odds we are currently in a simulation?).

I volunteered for the Humane League, a high impact charity dedicated to preventing the suffering of chickens in factory farms. I normally dedicate an hour or so per week to call large chains, email marketing teams, and pestering executives to raise the welfare standards for their factory farmed chickens.

Big Questions is a high school NSDA debate centered around asking and answering big philosophical questions. In my senior year, the question was on mathematical ontology and epistemology. From September of 2020 up until the tournament in June 2021, I put hundreds of hours of research into the question of whether mathematics was discovered or invented. I talked to multiple professors, read 3 books on the subject, and gained lots of experience in the field of mathematical philosophy. After competing against 10,000 students, I earned a spot in the top 10 BQ debaters in the nation.