• Columbus, Ohio

    July 2025 - Present

    • Chase Associate Program Rotation 1: Consumer Bank Field Behaviors

    June - August 2024

    • Recommended improvements to customer experience of digitally enabled branch account openings by visiting branches, interviewing 51 business partners, visualizing consumer insights, and analyzing marketing campaigns

    • Created new marketing analytics report and forecast of month-to-date, year-over-year account openings and simplify comparisons between unequal business day periods across platforms, product line, and coupon use

  • Bloomington, Indiana

    August 2023 - May 2025

    • Academics

      • Major in Finance

      • Dean’s Fellowship (full-tuition merit scholarship)

      • Independent Study: "Impact Finance: Linking Financial and Social Returns"

      • Strategic Finance Academy

    • Leadership & honors

      • Kelley Professionalism Award (one of only five graduation honors)

      • IU Ventures Fellow

      • Argentina Global Business and Social Enterprise (GLOBASE) project leader

      • Admissions counselor

  • New York, New York

    January - July 2023 (Contract)

    Next Street designs and implements solutions that connect entrepreneurs and small business owners with the right resources at the right time - from place-based small business strategies to capital transactions.

    • Designed survey in Spanish and English to test job quality indicators for low-wage workers, identifying capital and mentorship needs of 180 California companies and other state-wide trends

    • Measured financial and attitudinal data of small business owners’ approach to creating quality jobs, segmenting needs by company revenue, sector, location, firm age, and ownership demographics

    • Synthesized findings from 30 stakeholder interviews, 12 data sets related to county-level economic outcomes and capital products, and 80 articles on small business policy to inform recommendations

  • Cleveland, Ohio

    September 2021 - May 2023

    ThirdSpace Action Lab is a Black-owned research, strategy, and design startup prototyping creative cross-sector solutions to advance racial equity and inclusion.

    • Managed budget development for consulting engagements with internal and external partners, implementing evaluation matrix to forecast finances and assess a project’s impact on firm capacity

    • Introduced automated project management system with KPI data dashboards to ensure deliverable quality across 10 simultaneous projects and manage a hiring process which grew firm staff by 50%

    • Designed and delivered curriculum for multi-day trainings on the business case for racial equity, initiating reforms related to hiring, management practices, and partnerships with 12 clients

    • Advised public and philanthropic sector projects, advancing prioritization of underrepresented voices in city-wide park and waterfront redevelopment projects and a participatory budgeting initiative

  • Cleveland, Ohio

    August 2019 - August 2021

    Greater Cleveland Partnership is the region’s leading economic development organization and the largest chamber of commerce in the nation with more than 12,000 members.

    • Grew cross-sector effort matching minority-owned businesses with capital and coaching from 11 to 21 partners, adding new lenders and industry advisors resulting in 200+ entrepreneurs served annually

    • Translated focus group feedback from chamber of commerce members during COVID-19 into new online app for small businesses to identify resources, generating 1,500+ connections in first month

    • Produced and marketed 8-episode podcast on 1980s Cleveland business coalition addressing racism

    • Co-wrote winning $1.9 million federal grant establishing a statewide center for minority businesses, focused on assistance with mergers and acquisitions, traded industry sectors, and middle market firms

    • Built financial models to quantify Ohio state venture capital fund’s job creation results from investments in entrepreneurs of color, supporting advocacy for expanded small businesses investment