EDUCATION
August 2020 - Present
Bachelor of Science in Information, Communication, & Technology
Florida State University
Innovation Minor, Presidential Scholar, Honors Program, President's List, Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Garnet and Gold Key Leadership Honorary
GPA: 3.97
Expected Graduation: May 2024
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
May 2023 - Present
Digital Content Innovation, Web3 Intern
Universal Orlando Destinations & Experiences
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Building two original augmented reality filters in Meta Spark Studio for the official Universal Orlando Snapchat account
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Developing the strategy behind implementing AR and VR activations marketing (both in-park and in-market)
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Collaborating with team members to design story concepts for VR games for Meta Quest VR headsets
Research Assistant & Communications
Edgelands Institute
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Design weekly social media graphics about current events in the technology industry using Canva
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Led a research team of 4 graduate and PhD students to plan, research, write, edit, and design a 24 page report on global algorithmic policing and surveillance trends
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Served as the 2021 Communications Director for Edgelands and subsequently grew the Twitter account by 76.7%, Instagram account by 43.9% and LinkedIn account by 28.7% over a 5 month period
April 2021 - April 2023
LEADERSHIP
September 2021 - Present
Founder & President
Boxed Birthdays at FSU
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Founded this service organization to design custom birthday boxes for kids with disabilities from low-income families
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Partnered with the community organization Hang Tough to connect with local families and led a team of 33 undergrad students
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Bake and decorate 12 custom cookies per box, and on track to make 35 decorated boxes for the school year
August 2023 - Present
Digital Media Intern
Innovation Hub at Florida State University
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Marketing the Innovation Hub by taking video content of creations inside the Fabrication Lab
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Creating a web-based augmented reality tour of the Fabrication Lab
Assistant Director
Power of WE
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Power of We is an organization dedicated to decreasing political polarization on FSU’s campus
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Designed research-backed interventions at our events to decrease polarization amongst the campus community, and created an original study, using Qualtrics, to measure the impacts of our event
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Increased feelings of warmth towards liberals among conservatives by 11.68% at our Fall 2021 event, The Longest Table, and presented findings at the 2022 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference
June 2021 - Present
January 2021 - Present
Research Assistant
March Social Psychology Lab
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Designing an original Qualtrics study researching the psychological mechanisms driving susceptibility to online misinformation
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Wrote a collaborative literature review of 40 studies about the impact of anger and cognitive narrowing on threat perception
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Collect data using the physiological measure of facial electromyography (fEMG) to measure the blink amplitude of participants in reaction to threatening vs. disgusting images
RELEVANT COURSES
LIS4351 User Experience Design
ENT3607 Innovation by Design
LIS2527 Digital Storytelling in Information Enviroments
COM4470 Desktop Multimedia
IDS2142 Innovation and Emerging Technologies
LIS4381 Mobile Web Application Development
SKILLS
Proficient in Canva, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, Keynote, Figma, Qualtrics
Familiar with Fusion 360, Blender, Meta Spark Studio, Adobe Photoshop, MySQL Database Service, HTML, Javascript