Education:
New York University
M.A. candidate in Food Studies, 2023
• Concentrating in Food Media and Culture, recipient of academic scholarship
M.A. candidate in Food Studies, 2023
• Concentrating in Food Media and Culture, recipient of academic scholarship
Rhode Island School of Design
B.F.A. in Furniture Design and Sustainability, 2020
• Honors Student, Sustainability and Culture Studies Concentrator
Harvard University Online Business School
Business Fundamentals CORe 2020
• Program topics: Financial Accounting, Business Analytics, and Economics for Managers
• Program topics: Financial Accounting, Business Analytics, and Economics for Managers
Work Experience:
Community Manager, Food Education Fund
September 2021-present
• Developing and implementing social media and community strategy to grow the reach and impact of the organization
Freelance Design Consultant, Little Sun by Olafur Eliasson March 2019- Present
• Completed a six month communications internship in the Berlin headquarters in the Spring of 2019, continued as a remote designer• Responsibilities include: digital and print material design, brand development, exhibition planning, English language copy-writing
Public Relations Coordinator, Brown Market Shares December 2017- December 2018
• Primary role was to maintain the identity of the Brown Market Shares Pogram through the weekly newsletter, social media accounts, and website maintenance• Designed a community e-cookbook which raised funds for the subsidized program
Design Intern, Observatory Design
January 2019- February 2019
• Worked alongside the principle designers to prototype and ideate. Tasks included: sketching, 3D rendering, physical model making
Intern and Contributing Writer, Edible Rhody Magazine
June 2018- December 2018
• Managed social media accounts, wrote articles, conducted interviews, edited and developed recipes
Design Intern, Nest Homeware
June 2018- September 2018
• Assisted with completing the design of a new cookware line, refined molds and prototypes, completed brand and market research
Design Intern, Alan Tanksley Inc.
June 2017- Sept 2017
• Sourced fabrics, composed client Pinterest boards, organized the office materials library, contacted vendors for purchasing
Wilson Lab Intern, MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory June 2015- Aug 2015
• Worked under Francisco Flores in the Wilson Lab studying the effects of anesthetics on the brain, constructed electrode drives for implantation in rats, histology analysis, wrote a processing code to visualize LFP data
Software Capabilities:
Adobe Creative Suite:
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign,
Lightroom, Dreamweaver
AutoCAD
Rhinoceros
Keyshot
HTML,CSS
Awards:
Department Community Citizenship Award
2020
Textron Charitable Trust Fellowship
2019
WithIt Scholarship Recipient
2018
Autodesk Challenge Winner, MIT Hacking Arts
2016