Welcome to my corner of the internetšŖ“ Iām a computer science student at Barnard College. I'm interested in the intersection of technology and social good, more specifically leveraging technology to uplift marginalized voices. In my free time, you can find me making new playlists on Spotify or planning on Notion š
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šWhat Iām doing now
- Building features on DevTools at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA
- Coaching hackathons every month through Major League Hacking -->
š What I've done
- Learned back end and mobile development at Kode With Klossy in 2018 and 2019
- Researched VR's ability to affect a student's learning in a virtual classroom
- Taught students in grades 2-8 how to program a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot and Ruby at Code the Future
- Organized an all female + non binary hackathon through TechTogether in Queens, New York that attracted new hackers
- Taught 400+ high school women around the world web development as an Instructor Assistant through Kode With Klossy's inagural community camp in Summer 2020
- Tinkered with p5.js at the Google Computer Science Summer Institute
- Lead a student-centered scientific research journal at STEMchats
- Researched computer vision at Brown University under Prof. James Tompkin
- Interned at Prudential Financial to develop and test an internal API to process documents more easily using Java and Postman
- Worked with author Dr. Erika Kitzmiller to digitally publish "The Roots of Educational Inequality"
- Supporting the greater Kode With Klossy team in building the alumni community by engaging 2,000+ alumni on Geneva .
- Expanded the impact of Vital Voices through the Vital Voices Innovation Lab with the support of Megan Smith
š©š½āš» What I've built
Maia
- Wireframed, prototyped, and programmed a data-driven iOS app to help users track self-improvement goals.
- Incorporated the IBM Watson Tone Analyzing API to mood track journal entries
- Selected as a semi-finalist for the Kode With Klossy x SAP app development challenge
- Built with: Swift, Xcode, cocoapods, Firebase, IBM Tone Analyzing API
Aurora
- Created an iOS app that aims to reform the criminal justice system by connecting wrongly convicted individuals to local legal aid, journalists, and politicians
- Integrated the Google Civic Information API using SwiftyJSON to search and display local politicians
- Received āBest Philanthropic Hackā and āBest Political Polarization Hackā awards at TechTogether Boston 2020
- Built with: Swift, XCode, MapKit, Firebase, Google Civic Information API
Secure the Bread
- A web and iOS app that combats food insecurity in the Baltimore area
- Integrated the Google Maps and Places API to display participating restaurants through a userās current location
- Received āBest Use of Open Source Dataā and āBest Hack for Small Businessesā awards at Technica 2019
- Built with: HTML/CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Google Maps API, Google Places API, Swift, XCode, Webview Kit
Know Your Vote
- A web app that would provide users with information on political candidatesā views while fully anonymizing the candidatesā identifying information
- Think of Tinder, but for Presidential candidates
- Utilized jQuery and CSS to display the userās "matches" of the candidate that best aligns with their beliefs
- Received āTop 30ā (ranked 15th out of 242 teams, top 8%) at PennApps 2019 and won āBest Fake News Hackā at TechTogether Boston 2019
- Built with: HTML/CSS, JS, Bootstrap, Python, jQuery
You can view my full portfolio here
š” What I'm curious about:
- artificial intelligence
- education
- data ethics
- climate change
- podcasting