Projects

Data/Tech Projects:

• My team, GreenItUp, designed and pitched a browser extension that looks at products in a user's online shopping cart and offers comparable substitutions that are more sustainable yet still within their price range, as part of Columbia SIPA's Dean's Public Policy Challenge. I was tasked with all things technical: I built the website via Bootstrap, designed mockups via InVision, and drafted product specs. We won second place!
• I used Python (and Matplotlib and Pandas) to uncover the Demographics of the Top 10 Specialized High School Feeder Middle Schools in New York City.
• I used R to explore Mitski's Discography Through Text Mining.
• I used R to provide a data-driven analysis to the question: is T. Swift getting angstier?.
• I wrote about mobile money for one of my favorite classes in grad school, "Policies and Practices in Digital Development".
• The site that you're on right now. I made it using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript.

Other projects:

• With a team of six graduate students, I conducted expert interviews, synthesized recommendations, and led the editing process of a report to understand the potential of cash transfer programming for adolescents in emergencies.
• I tend to create video montages when I travel.
• As a Fulbright ETA grantee, I coached an incredible team of students in an 8-week social entrepreneurship competition, directed a music video of a popular Bahasa Melayu song that my class translated into English, and had the unanticipated honor of being a dance mom for a weekend at the National Creative Action Camp in Kuala Lumpur.
• I delivered a speech about my experiences navigating cultural diversity both in Malaysia and in the United States at the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Showcase in Putrajaya.
• I led the creation of Celebrating Our Sisters: Asian Pacific American Women of New York City: a NAPAWF*NYC storytelling project to celebrate APA sisters of New York City.
• Channels for Change: Sesame Street’s Ability to Implement Civil Rights Ideology in Children’s Programming: I wrote my 50-something page undergrad thesis exploring the origins of Sesame Street.