Professional Experience
Ackland Art Museum
August 2025 – Present
Data Analyst
- Apply optical character recognition and AI tools to digitize and structure scanned educational handouts.
- Organize and extract text and metadata into a searchable database to improve access to the museum's materials.
- Document data pipeline processes and provide recommendations for future database expansion and use.
- Leverage statistical and computational skills to enhance access to art-related educational resources.
American Statistical Association DataFest @ Duke
April 2025
Winner: Best Insight
- Analyzed leasing trends in the Financial Services & Insurance sector (2018–2024), focusing on Manhattan and Atlanta.
- Performed spatial analysis in QGIS using geocoded data (Python, OpenCage API) to map leasing clusters and trends.
- Built Excel and R (ggplot2) visualizations, including triple-line rent comparisons and stay/go bar charts.
- Awarded Best Insight for delivering the most actionable project; praised for GIS visualizations and storytelling.
UNC MSA Alumni Database Project
September 2024 – February 2025
Data Analyst
- Collaborated on a comprehensive alumni database project with data spanning as far back as 1952.
- Normalized and organized historical alumni data to ensure compatibility with scripts and web scraping tools.
- Utilized LinkedIn to web scrape alumni information and input data into Proxi, creating an alumni network to foster professional connections for current students.
- Used Pandas, Matplotlib, Folium, RE, Spacy, Seaborn, Plotly Express to create data visualizations.
HackNC 2024
November 2024
Winner: Best Communication and Community Hack for Bandwidth
- Co-developed UnityConnect, a digital platform supporting refugees and immigrants through real-time translation, resource directories, and cultural integration tools.
- Designed and integrated a user-friendly resource directory with mapping features to locate essential services.
- Collaborated with a team to implement an AI chat assistant for multilingual support for diverse users.
MeckPathways – Mecklenburg County Department of Public Health
June 2022 - August 2022
Public Health Intern - Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)
- Drafted a communication plan to inform medical providers on the importance of regular HIV/STD testing, enhancing provider awareness and patient care.
- Modernized the PrEP Screening Form using Excel and Microsoft Forms improving efficiency in the screening process.
Mayor's Youth Employment Program and Atrium Health
June 2021 - July 2021
Data Analysis and Healthcare Technology Intern
- Created an app concept to improve health outcomes and reduce costs for low-income populations with cardiovascular disease.
Honors & Awards
ASA DataFest (2025)
American Statistical Association
Best Insight
GIS-based leasing trend analysis in Manhattan and Atlanta using QGIS, OpenCage API, Python, and R.
HackNC (2024)
University of North Carolina
Best Communication and Community Hack for Bandwidth
UnityConnect: Refugee support platform with real-time translation, mapping, and multilingual AI assistant.
Community & Leadership
DailyArt
Arabic Translator • January 2022 - Present
Translating English art texts into Arabic for Daily Art, an integrative art app that makes art history more accessible for global users.
Rotaract District 7680
District Representative • October 2022 - April 2023
Represented all Rotaract clubs in the district, spanning 14 counties, maintaining communication between Rotaract and Rotary clubs, and facilitating joint service projects.