Helping small businesses win online by blending people first strategy with clear execution and real world guidance that converts effort into results.
2023–2025
Community Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator, Mendo Food Network
Created outreach initiatives, built partnerships, and engaged in fundraising for food security projects, including training and program support across sites.
2020–2024
Hospitality Management
Elevating guest experience through thoughtful high touch customer service while strategically maximizing owner profitability
Capstone Work
2023–Present
Independent Research
Investigating alternative credentialing systems and their potential to disrupt the debt-education pipeline. Field research with community colleges, worker cooperatives, and mutual aid networks building parallel structures outside institutional capture.
This work refuses academic gatekeeping while maintaining methodological rigor. Published findings are accessible outside paywalled journals.
Nonprofit Service
2023–Present
Policy Analyst, Economic Justice Coalition
Authored policy briefs on rent control, tenant protections, and community land trusts. Testified before city councils on housing policy. Coordinated with tenant unions and housing advocacy groups to translate research into organizing strategy.
Hospitality & Professional Experience
2016–2020
Server & Barista, Various Establishments
Authored policy briefs on rent control, tenant protections, and community land trusts. Testified before city councils on housing policy. Coordinated with tenant unions and housing advocacy groups to translate research into organizing strategy.
2020–2021
Research Assistant, Urban Planning Department
Data analysis and qualitative research on displacement patterns in gentrifying neighborhoods. Conducted interviews with longtime residents facing eviction. Contributed to reports that were subsequently ignored by planning commissions.