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My Experience

Resume Overview

Selected Experience

Policy Intern —

National Political Advocacy Department

American Civil Liberties Union | Aug 2025 – Present

• Collaborate with The Sentencing Project on policy research addressing the 13th Amendment’s exception clause and community-based alternatives to incarceration.​

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• Develop policy memos for state legislators by synthesizing legal research, empirical data, and community impact analysis into clear, action-oriented briefs.

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• Analyze data from the ACLU Mayors Project to identify non-carceral public safety strategies aligned with community needs and harm-reduction principles.

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• Translate research findings into materials usable by policymakers, organizers, and partner organizations.

Graduate Research Assistant —

University of Maryland | Sept 2022 – Spring 2024

• Led  mixed-methods research on criminal justice attitudes, civic engagement, and policy perceptions among Black communities.

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• Supported a nonprofit–academic partnership with Black Girls Vote, contributing to a public-facing policy brief on Black women’s political engagement.

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• Managed project timelines, coordinated across academic and community partners, and produced accessible, non-academic deliverables.

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• Supervised and mentored a three-person research team responsible for survey design, data cleaning, and documentation, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of project milestones.

Policy Intern
Southern Poverty Law Center | May 2024 – Aug 2024

•    Co-authored a published policy analysis on civil asset forfeiture practices in Alabama, highlighting inequitable impacts and reform pathways.


•    Conducted applied research on housing access, voting rights, and economic justice in the Deep South.


•    Synthesized legal, historical, and empirical research to support advocacy campaigns and policy briefs

Research Assistant (Leadership Alliance Fellow)

Harvard University | Summer 2020

·        Collaborated on a field experiment examining bias against applicants with criminal records in college admissions.


·        Conducted data analysis in R and presented findings at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium.
 

Education

University of Maryland, College Park
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science – Black Politics

Expected May 2027


·        National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow


·        Rapoport Family Foundation Dissertation Grant Recipient


·        Visiting Scholar- Emory University, The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
B.A. in Psychology and African American Studies, Cum Laude

May 2021


·        Departmental Honors in African American Studies

 

·        Distinction in Undergraduate Research

Professional Skillset Overview

Data Cleaning & Analysis · Survey Design & Quantitative Methods · Mixed-Methods Research·

 

Teaching · Research Communication


Project & Team Management · Cross-Sector Collaboration


Interviews & Focus Groups · Community-Engaged Research


Strategic Planning · Policy Analysis 


Academic Writing · Public Writing

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