01 SITE READINESS FUND • Cleveland, Ohio • Summer 2025
Recipient of the 2025 Freedom Fellowship, a collaboration between MIT DUSP, MIT PKG, and Kyanite Partners. Working with the Site Readiness Fund for Good Jobs Cleveland to evaluate the second-order impacts of a planned industrial park located on remediated brownfield land in Cleveland. Employing innovative methods (including quantitative spatial equilibrium (QSE) modeling) as well as consulting on a financial model for a community wealth-building value-capture instrument.
Economic modeling • Finance • Open data • Industrial siting • Real estate

02 CREW NETWORK BENCHMARK STUDY • Cambridge, Mass. • Summer 2025
Research consultant for the MIT Urban Economics Lab in collaboration with the CREW Network. Project management for research on gender and labor in the commercial real estate industry. Managing undergraduate research assistants, analyzing/visualizing data, coding in R.
Project management • Data analysis • Social science • Real estate

03 GLOBAL IMPACT SPRINT • New York, N.Y. • June 2025
Nominated to represent MIT at the 2025 Global Impact Sprint, an initiative of the Engine, the Hasso-Plattner Institut's tech entrepreneurship center and start-up accelerator. Matched with graduate students from 6 leading engineering and business faculties to pitch and prototype a solution to enhance semiconductor supply-chain resilience—in only 100 hours.
Entrepreneurship • Teamwork • Prototyping • Leadership

04 ACACIAPULSE • Cambridge, Mass. on Sudan • 2024-25
Co-founder of acaciapulse, a humanitarian venture which leverages community-generated data, natural language processing, and logistic optimization to forecast the flow of internally-displaced persons (IDPs) across Sudan. Pitched and then successfully accepted into MITdesignX, MIT’s premier design and built environment accelerator, awarded a $10k seed fund to begin product and business development.
Entrepreneurship • Machine learning • Prototyping • Humanitarian tech

05 AN ECONOMIC REEVALUATION OF NAVI MUMBAI • Cambridge, Mass. on Navi Mumbai, Maha. • 2024-25
Researched and wrote a master’s thesis titled “An Economic Reevaluation of Navi Mumbai and the Indian Satellite City” and advised by Prof. Albert Saiz of MIT’s Urban Economics Lab. Evaluated urban expansion as a strategy to relieve congestion, promote equity, and encourage economic growth. Leveraged economic models of urban growth and economic specialization to understand how cities in the Global South can viably execute megaprojects. Created a novel method of detecting the development of informal settlements using remote sensing.
Independent research • Urban economics • Statistical analysis • Remote sensing

06 RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITY SITING CLINIC • Cambridge, Mass on Barnstable, Mass. • 2024-25
Team lead for MIT DUSP’s Renewable Energy Facility Siting Clinic, led by Prof. Lawrence Susskind. Guided a team of student participants helping transmission infrastructure siting for offshore wind projects in Cape Cod. Connected community members to scientific expertise and mediation services with the goal of facilitating a just, financially viable, and environmentally conscious green transition.
Community/stakeholder engagement • Science communication • Leadership • Project management

07 "AFTER THE CITY" • Mumbai, Maha., Ahmedabad, Guj., and Surat, Guj. • Summer 2024
Summer research assistant with the MIT Infrastructure Architecture Lab (MIT/IAL) at the School of Architecture and Planning in collaboration with faculty at UC-Berkeley and the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies at IIT Bombay. Conducted qualitative social research, surveyed stakeholders, documented built environments, and analyzed policy. Contributing to ongoing research on urban economies and industrial policy in western India. Funded by MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI).
Qualitative research • Industrial siting • Political economics • Hindi-Urdu

08 SILT MAGAZINE • Cambridge, Mass. • 2024
Digital lead/contributing editor for Silt Magazine, a student literary publication at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). Edited bilingual poetry for the spring 2024 edition. Web design for the magazine’s online presence. Contributed pieces in spring and fall 2024.
HTML/CSS/Javascript • Content management • Spanish • Editing

09 AN LLM TAKES A WALK DOWN CANAL STREET • Cambridge, Mass. on New York, N.Y. • Spring 2024
Used Google’s Gemini LLM and the Google Street View API to create a database of all street-visible text in Manhattan Chinatown. Utilized CLD2 for language detection. Created an interactive map that allows users to explore the linguistic landscape of Lower Manhattan, focusing on the contested role of Chinese and English in defining the spatialized patterns of immigrant and ethnic identity in New York City. Made for Prof. Carlo Ratti’s Digital City Design Workshop.
R (Shiny) • Computer vision • AI methods • Interactive mapping

10 MASS TRANSIT AS AN ALMP • Cambridge, Mass. on Boston, Mass. • Spring 2024
Final project for 11.427J Labor Markets and Employment taught by Prof. Anna Stansbury. Considered whether improvements in mass transit systems can be evaluated within the framework of an active labor market policy, taking the proposed Red-Blue Connector in Boston as a case study. Considered differentials in demand for white- and blue-collar labor, as well as competition among workers for housing. Built upon theoretical frameworks including the Alonso-Muth-Mills model.
Cost-benefit analysis • Economic modelling • GIS • Labor economics

11 MONITORING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN ISTANBUL • Cambridge, Mass. on Istanbul • Fall 2023
Created an interactive dashboard (Shiny and flexdashboard) allowing users to explore water infrastructure in Istanbul using data from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s open data portal. Underscores the connection between water access and geographies of poverty and housing informality. Allows users to observe change throughout time, specifically over the course of the 2022-2023 drought. Made for Prof. Cong Cong’s Applied Data Science for Cities.
R (Shiny) • Interactive mapping • Open data • Turkish

12 NORTHEAST NO. 1/VENICE • Cambridge, Mass. and Austin, Texas, on Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Calif. • Fall 2023-Spring 2025
Conducted archival research for a forthcoming publication by DUSP faculty member devin michelle bunten on the history of urban renewal in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, focusing on the 1960s and 70s. Research trips to presidential libraries in Austin and Boston. Attempted to understand the confluence of gentrification/flight, racial politics, and real estate economics in a contested era.
Archival research • Economic history • Context • Narrative

13 WATSON FELLOWSHIP • Worldwide • Dec. 2021-Mar. 2023
Received the highly selective Thomas J. Watson Fellow in 2021. Executed a fully-funded year of research and self-directed exploration. Methodology: travel to specific cities around the world, ride every mile of their metro system, get off at every station. Observe, chat, write, draw, record, think. Focused on how mass transit both articulates and is articulated by the historical, political, and economic context of a place. Considered how infrastructure, design, and transport decarbonization can be used as vehicle for both justice and marginalization.
Globetrotting • Qualitative research • Project management • Language learning

14 GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS • Portland, Me. • Summer 2021
Interned with Greater Portland Landmarks, the non-profit tasked with monitoring and maintaining Portland’s architectural heritage. Contributed to Maine’s Cultural & Architectural Resource Management Archive, a digital, geospatial database of Maine’s cultural resources. Nominated sites for GPL’s “Places in Peril” program. Contributed to projects highlighting the role of marginalized groups in Portland history.
Historic preservation • Archival research • Database management • Photography

15 BRUTAL ENCOUNTERS • Brunswick, Me. • 2020-21
Elected to write an honors’ thesis with Prof. Dallas Denery. Wrote about the intellectual history of high modern urbanism and architecture in the post-war era, framing modernism as an attempt to rescue the idea of “human nature” against the backdrop of the Second World War, decolonization, and shifting understandings of pathology and disability. Built upon earlier research funded by the Hughes Family Summer Research Fellowship. Received the Samuel and Rose A. Bernstein Prize for Excellence in the Study of European History.
Historical research • Academic writing • Literature review • Architectural criticism

16 PORTLAND HOUSING AUTHORITY • Portland, Me. • Summer 2019
Interned with Portland Housing Authority as part of Bowdoin College’s Maine Community Fellowship. Worked with the PHA’s Resident Services Department to streamline intake and outreach. Assisted with the CHEETA youth empowerment program. Mapped trends in housing and development in the Portland region.
Community engagement • Public housing • GIS • Non-profit management

17 TYPEFACE DESIGN • Brunswick, Me. • 2019-
Taught myself digital typeface design in FontForge, an open-source font creation software. Make typefaces for several scripts including Latin and Hebrew. Specialize in experimental typefaces. Created a custom typeface for an independent film.
Typeface design • Graphic design • Text encoding

18 WOODCUT PRINTING • Brunswick, Me. • 2020-
Learned woodcut printing at Bowdoin College. Inspired by classical, religious, and folk themes. Amazing gifts for friends and family.
Woodcut printing • Low-tech graphic design • Handiwork