full-stack humanist

• Define the content moderation strategy for Google Shopping.
• Set vision and product requirements to protect Google Shopping consumers from harmful and low-quality products, Generative AI experiences, and other Shopping content
• Support an engineering team to build  logistic regression and large-language models (LLMs) that identify adult content, misrepresentation, weapons, and other consumer harms across 60+ billion products in 94 countries.
• conceive, draft and implement a cybersecurity- adjacent risk mitigation plan that reduces vulnerabilities to scams, spammers, hacking attempts, and efforts to undermine computer network operations while supporting resiliency of our infrastructure and open access to information.

• As the Data Portability product manager, I led a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and policy managers to develop tools that enable people to transfer their photos, videos and other Facebook data to third-party services like Google Photos and Dropbox.
• As the Commerce Integrity product manager, I drove content moderation for Instagram Shopping. I  supported a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and researchers to reduce exposure of illegal, dangerous, and low quality ads and goods by 23% across our Instagram Shopping, Dynamic Ads and Jobs platforms.

• Managed a 7-person team and a $5 million budget that set the priorities and builds the foundation’s skills, knowledge and systems necessary to pursue an impact-driven approach to grant-making.
• Led monitoring & evaluation programs to define outcomes evaluate the impact of Knight Foundation grants.
• Commissioned and managed research projects to inform the foundation’s work and the fields where it invests.

Accepted into fellowship of diverse technologists to empower the federal government to use technology and innovation practices to tackle nation’s biggest challenges.

·      Built an online, community-based planning tool for the Department of Commerce’s Broadband USA program that supports communities working to accelerate broadband deployment, deepen broadband adoption, and use broadband to advance local priorities.

·      Served as lead developer for The OpportunityProject, a government-wide that enables technologists, community advocates andpolicymakers to use open data to build tools that increase access to opportunity.

Product Lead, Code.gov

Built and led the first ever catalog of federal government software, which began during my Presidential Innovation Fellowship, featuring over 2,900 repositories across 25 federal agencies.

·      Wrote metadata schema, chose software stack(MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and NodeJS), built wireframes before onboarding team.

·      Grew initiative into a fully-staffed, 5-person team with a $440,000 initial budget. Provided mission and vision leadership for the Code.gov program by promoting use of open-source software, government-widesharing and reuse of source for cost-savings to the American taxpayer.  

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Associate, Capital Markets Practice

Represented clients in the formation of private equity,real estate and hedge funds targeting investment in emerging and frontiermarkets.

·      Represented investment managers in establishingprivate equity funds with investments focused on small- and medium-sizedenterprises, clean technology, mezzanine financing, infrastructure, and socialdevelopment.

·      Established private equity funds that includedebt components, including debt financing from the Overseas Private InvestmentCorporation, the Inter-American Development Bank and other developmentfinancial institutions.

·      Prepared private equity and venture capitalguidebooks explaining the legal and regulatory horizon for foreign directinvestment in seven African countries. Provided counsel on rule of law and goodgovernance matters in South Africa. Represented clients’ interests on antitrustand intellectual property matters before the International Trade Commission.

Speechwriter and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

• Prepared speeches and public statements on a range of foreign affairs and domestic topics of interest to the Secretary. Maintained a working knowledge of current and emerging policy issues and U.S government foreign policy objectives. Analyzed, developed and made policy recommendations to the Secretary and developed approaches for achieving policy positions within the Department and beyond.

Speechwriter and Special Assistant to theUnder Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs

• Prepared all speeches and public statements for the Under Secretary. Advised the UnderSecretary on the Department’s commercial advocacy and trade promotion strategies as they relate to the President’s National Export Initiative.
• Managed portfolios covering US government economic engagement with African countries, particularly conflict minerals and trade in responsible extraction of resources, development of the Africa Growth &Opportunity Act (AGOA) and promotion of foreign direct investment.