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B.A. Philosophy and History

University of Texas at Austin

• Departmental Honors in Philosophy
• Thesis under Dr. Robbie Kubala on Marcel Proust (Fall 2023- Spring 2024).
• Philosophy and Upper-Division GPA- 4.0
• Summer Study Abroad Program at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom (2022); Philosophy course; Arts, Activism, and Social Justice with Dr. Joanna Burch-Brown as the Academic Director.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

AVAnnotate, UT Austin

• Researching for AVAnnotate- a Mellon grant-funded workflow and web-app, created by Dr. Tanya Clement and developed by Brumfield Labs, for curating and sharing annotations of audiovisual collections held at libraries, archives, and museums; the project is within the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Working under a postdoctoral fellow to analyze the use of the workflow which included learning HTML, Github, Github Pages, CSS, Audacity, and other open-source programs.

Docent

Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas

• Undergoing training for the exhibitions that are ongoing at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities and art research center and library-archive-museum, providing public and private tours.
• Engaging in thematic analysis of the different exhibitions and constructing independent research including work on early production art and storyboards in film.

Intern

Initiative for Digital Humanities, UT Austin

• Researching under a postdoctoral student on a project, Radio Venceremos, and using HTML and Github to upkeep the digital project about radio broadcasts in El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War. .
• Creating an independent project on the philosophy of digital authenticity and Adaptation Theory using film, poetry recordings, music, and recordings of literature.

Student Mobilization Fellow

Julie Oliver for House of Representatives, Austin, Texas

• Volunteered for Julie Oliver and her campaign for Congress in the 35th Congressional District.
• Canvassed, worked phone-banks, and pitched ideas for organizing University of Texas students to vote.
• Found this experience helpful in my desire to figure out what it takes to truly find ideas put into practice.

Secretary and Events Committee Chair

TX Votes, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life

• For the first two years of my time at UT and TX Votes, I served as secretary, where I organized meeting notes and was in charge with member-exec relations and keeping track of new membership.
• As Events Committee Chair, I was in charge of organizing and creating new events to keep the organization fun and to keep people engaged.
• TX Votes is a non-partisan, non-advocacy student organization at the University of Texas that encourages students and faculty to vote on local, state, and national elections.

Secretary

Texas Students for Digital Humanities, Initiative for Digital Humanities

• Providing workshops on topics that concern the digital humanities including introductions to GIS, Python, R-Studio, and GitHub.
• An organization of all disciplines in the humanities at the University of Texas and encourages the development of technical skills like coding and open-source programs to improve their research.

Member

Divine Pheminines

• A philosophy organization on campus that emphasizes as a safe space for women and people in the LGBTQ+ community.
• Weekly discussions about hardships and mental health and sharing experiences as we navigate the heteronormative and masculine discipline of philosophy.
• Important focus on providing a space for internal barriers that we provide to our own educational path while also providing a platform for conversation with others in our experience; not necessarily blaming other people for our uncomfort.

Programs Committee Member

International Affairs Society

• Academic-focused organization focused on educational discussion and conversations about international affairs, and it held weekly meetings that focused on current events and our place as students in these conversations.
• As a member of the programs committee, I worked on making the club more inclusive and, personally, advocated for more educational/academic opportunities opposed to being too career-focused.

A Digital Florilegium

• A collection of digital art and a philosophical argumentative digital essay using AudiAnnotate on the use of time and transformation in digital authenticity, and a rejection of traditional criticisms of digital art. 16,000 words.

Elgar's Enigma

• A guide for solving Sir Edward Elgar’s mystery in his piece Enigma Variations.

• Departmental Honors, Philosophy
• Paper Prize, UTD Philosophy Conference
• The Ronald Schuchard Undergraduate Archival Research Prize, Semi-finalist
• University Honors
• Summer Honors Symposium - Undergraduate Fellowship

• University Honors
• Phi Alpha Theta

• Day of Digital Humanities Lightning Talks (April, 2023)- Giving a quick presentation about my project and work on AudiAnnotate as an undergraduate researcher to encourage and support digital scholarship in the humanities.

• 4th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Texas at Dallas (April, 2023)- My paper, Contradiction and Overdetermination, was accepted and selected to give a 20-minute presentation.

• American Society For Aesthetics, Student Member