EXPERIENCE

Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID)

  • Researcher (Department of Anthropology and Sociology)     January 2019

International Labour Organization

Tufts University

Advisory Projects

Product Advisor (Individual Lending) (Vaya FinServ)     June – August 2017

Social Impact Product Advisor (Accion and Grassroots Capital Management)     January – May 2017

Due Diligence Advisor (Kiva)     January – December 2017

Market Entry Advisor (Adelante Shoe Co.)     September – December 2016

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

  • Assistant Donor Relations Officer     January 2016 – July 2016
  • Research Assistant and Event Coordinator     August 2014 – November 2015
  • Communications Intern     December 2013 – June 2014

The Next Step Fund

  • Development Intern     June – September 2013

EDUCATION

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Master of International Business (2018)

  • Fields of Study: Strategic Management, Development Economics
  • Awards: Emerging Market Scholar – Institute for Business in the Global Context; Blakeley Fellowship
  • Volunteer: Tufts University Refugee Assistance Program

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cross-Registrant (2017)

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors, Professor Richard Cavanagh
  • Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance, Professor Carl Byers

University of Chicago

Bachelor of Arts, with Honors (2013)

  • Major: International Studies
  • Awards: Dean’s List; Boren Scholar (Morocco); Adlai Stevenson International Studies Thesis Prize (nominee)

School for International Training

Boren Scholar (Morocco, 2011), Center for Cross Cultural Learning (CCCL)

  • Intensive Arabic Language and Moroccan Culture
  • Migration and Transnational Identity

SKILLS

Language

  • English and Spanish: Native Proficiency
  • Portuguese and French: Working Proficiency
  • Arabic and Italian: Limited Working Proficiency
  • Swahili: Elementary Proficiency

Technical

  • Windows and Mac OS
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Excel [Solver and Pivot Tables], Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher)
  • Bloomberg Terminal
  • STATA, NVivo, Qualtrics, Evernote, Zotero
  • ArcGIS, QGIS
  • Google Analytics, Facebook Insight, Twitter Counter
  • WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, Google+
  • Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Canva