Other Experience

Teaching

Apr. 2023 – Aug. 2024

Research Fellow, full-time

Conducting independent economics research and joint research with senior Lab fellows for publication
Prepare replication reports for Institute for Replication (I4R) meta-analysis on terrorism and politics papers
Administrative tasks including maintaining the Lab website and organizing research workshops

Oct. 2020 – Apr. 2024

Research Assistant

Undergraduate Research Fellow of the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab: building the lab website and summarizing research for showcase on the website
RA work for Prof. Pauline Grosjean on data visualization, textual analysis, and data cleaning for various projects, including Grosjean, Masera, and Yousaf (2023), QJE and Patriarcapitalisme (2021)
RA work for A.Prof. Jane Zhang: writing ethics applications, conducting literature review, co-designing an experiment on mental health and technology, building the experimental treatment mobile application and Qualtrics survey, managing logistics of pilot implementation

Jan. 2017 – present

Freelance Photographer, Photojournalist

Provide reportage photography services to private and corporate clients including MigrArt, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Belvoir Street Theatre, UNSW Sydney, Gonski Institute, OutInCanberra, Region Canberra
Managing editor of Australian and Swiss music and entertainment media publication Music Beyond Headlines, coordinating a team of 10+ photographers and writers across Australia to produce industry-standard content
Contributing music photographer to publications and venues including Roundhouse UNSW, FBi Radio, AAA-Backstage
Portrait and fashion photography published in magazines including Picton Magazine, Sheeba Magazine, Leiden
1 of 11 chosen from over 1300 applicants for a 6-month photography mentorship with Canon Australia in their inaugural Red Straps youth mentoring program in 2019

May 2021 – Jul. 2023

Youth National Reference Group Member

Selected to advise on national public engagement, media and brand strategy and development, governance, and risk and assurance for the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, established by the Australian Government
Attended the International Association of Youth Mental Health (IAYMH) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark 2022. Awarded financial bursary from IAYMH to attend.
Public advocacy media features on cultural identity and mental health in an Australia-wide campaign, invited speaker on SBS Insight, a current affairs TV program, and SBS news articles (web, radio, and TV)
Drafted submissions to the Australian Government Senate inquiry on ADHD and the National Mental Health Commission
Consultant on Digital Safety in the Metaverse with Meta and Project Rockit

Feb. 2023 – Apr. 2023

Graduate Data Analyst, full-time

Data analyst in the data management team of global data science and AI company utilizing SQL and Python to maintain database and draw business insights from Woolworths Group data
Resigned to focus on pursuing career as an academic economist and to undertake pre-doc Research Fellow role full-time

Jan. 2021 – May 2021

Project Officer Intern, part-time

Internship placement within the Strategy and Communications team
Projects: setting up SQL database infrastructure, data analytics and communication to create marketing and quantitative collateral for external stakeholders, develop project briefs for multicultural community engagement and promotion of the rights of older people and adults with disability

Jun. 2020 – Dec. 2020

Data Science Intern, full-time

UNSW Co-op Scholarship sponsored industry placement within the Data Science and Risk Management team
Projects: predictive modeling in R and PowerBI to monitor customer retention trends, designed and built a competitor pricing engine using webscraping in Python for KINTO car rental service

Jul. 2019 – Mar. 2022

Program Coordinator, part-time

Developed, designed, and delivered entrepreneurial programs to UNSW students, staff, and alumni
Managed the Higher-Degree Research Program supporting graduate research students commercialize their research innovations (2022), and the New Wave Program for promoting female engagement in entrepreneurship and within the startup space (2019)
Developed an effective marketing strategy to recruit female participation in the New Wave program, resulting in the largest cohort since program inception
Facilitate and teach design thinking, rapid prototyping, and lean canvas workshops

Board Director of World Meditation Day Association2025 –
Winner of the Australian Financial Review/Gradconnection Top100 Future Leaders Award for the AECOM Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Award2020
Board Director of Arc@UNSW and Chair of Nominations and Remunerations Subcommittee, the not-for-profit overarching organization for student experience and support services at UNSW2019 – 2021
Undergraduate representative on the Faculty of Science Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion working group2019 – 2022
Student representative on the UNSW Centre for Ideas advisory committee2020 – 2022
Youth advisory group member for headspace Camperdown2019 – 2023
Football Coach of the Randwick City Football Club's not-for-profit Purple Hearts all-abilities squads2019 – 2020
Women's Premier League (WPL) football player, Australian Capital Territory2015 – 2017 seasons

Programming languages: Python, Stata, R, SQL, C

Certifications: Standard Mental Health First Aid Certificate Australia (issued 2019)