Professional Experience

Recently, I started a research position at the Center for Inclusive Computing which focuses on data-backed and systemic policy to increase representation of underserved communities in computer science. Currently, we are serving 160+ schools to increase opportunity for minoritized students in technology.

My specific role is in measuring KPIs for the institution, drafting research based policy prescriptions to aid transfer students, and maintaining/analyzing the data provided by our partner schools.

In this role, I complete a broad range of administrative/operational tasks for a couple working within EA aligned charity organizations. In this role, In my day to day, I do tasks such as travel planning, groceries, managing personal finances, yearly taxes, and wedding planning.

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, utilized python to develop the results on the effects of ethics teaching in CS classes, developed grants to secure funding for the department, and used the resources around me to do my own research.

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

Every semester, our team researches, writes, and debates 12 - 15 ethical controversies found in current events. Each year, I prep our team for two events: one debate on ethics broadly and one on bioethics. 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. Now, we regularly finish within the top 8, one semester scoring second.

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.

In this position, I organize weekly meetings for a casual philosophy conversation for those interested. Our weekly attendance is somewhere around 20 people, so facilitating the conversation, making reservations for food and rooms, recruiting, and sending weekly emails are the main responsibilities I carry. 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 really 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 making calls with chain restaurants and other food services, emailing 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.