currently (2023-24) emerging from sabbatical
• invited to co-design the inaugural chaplaincy/ombudsman program & training for the sf commons
• training in design and facilitation of social-emotional and relational workshops
• crunching numbers for a data science study and writing a report on young adult social-emotional learning for sleepawake (volunteer)
• organizing pilgrimages and rituals for my community (self-discovery, grief, letting go, rebirth, celebration…)
• providing 1on1 storytelling/communication/public speaking coaching for young founders
• designing & facilitating emotional-relational workshops

recently (2023)
• co-created, -facilitated, and -produced a weekend-long hackathon on “conscious tech”
• co-created and -facilitated a course on designing rituals for the 21st century at the sf commons
• attended an arts and creative technology residency for two months in the lush hills of northern portugal, where i led a series of emotional-relational and improv/clowning workshops
• spent one month in the mountains of colorado springs attending a transformational and intensive emotional-relational retreat with my closest friends
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community manager @propel @sylva
provided meaningful support to 150+ current and future founders taking early steps in building their startups. designed and ran member growth,
onboarding, programming, and member experience both online and irl. designed systems for feedback and improvement, held weekly office hours
to provide guidance to and check in on our members.

mars college
left wefunder to participate full-time in mars college, an educational program, r&d lab, and off-grid residential community dedicated to
cultivating a low-cost, high-tech lifestyle. learned creative coding, experimented with alternative governance, off-grid construction,
ran a study group on rituals, contracted and recovered from amoebic dysentery, had a midnight coyote encounter, & more.

growth & venture partner lead @wefunder
sourced, diligenced, and onboarded 100+ founders and startups seeking crowdfunded equity capital. secured and lead corporate partnerships in biotech,
deep tech, and healthcare, including partners like the american medical association. launched and ran a new arm of the company focused
on working with local entrepreneurial ecosystem builders to increase access to capital in cities overlooked by venture capitalists

[ 2020.5 ] b.s. neuroscience, brown university
graduated with a degree in neuroscience, did wet lab research on sensory perception and chronic pain. undergrad mentor for freshman and two curricular programs.
president of creative tech and design collective. meditation group facilitator & leader. co-host and mc of weekly student/professor salons. coursework in engineering,
neuroscience, philosophy, religion, poetry, modern culture & media. home-schooled a 10yo in english and science for 1yr. designed & taught a full-credit
seminar on tech ethics in silicon valley. took a gap semester to focus on research full-time. co-designed a thoughtful leadership course. mentored design students.

partner @dorm room fund
invested in pre-seed student-founded startups in the greater boston area. sourced, diligenced, and voted on 100+ startups. initiated, designed,
and ran new partner onboarding. co-designed and -facilitated a summer course for students interested in venture capital. produced a
speaker series with leaders in venture capital and startups during covid.

community manager and content creator @makelane
supported a community of hundreds of female founders and business owners in the consumer packaged goods space. ran programming
and created valuable educational resources for members.

steamrave
co-directed, curated, fabricated, and produced an immersive and interactive multimedia arts installation at brown university.
drew 500+ attendees over 3 nights, during my term as president of the brown-risd creative technology collective “steam” (stem + arts)

neuroscience researcher @brown university school of engineering
worked in a lab part of the brain gate group, building and researching at the forefront of global brain-computer interfacing. investigated
the gate theory of chronic pain & cortical integration of spinal pain signals. performed weekly high-precision rodent spinal surgery,
electrophysiological readings of optogenetic mice, processed neural data, and two-photon microscopy & labeling

humanistic buddhist monastic life program
spent a summer in a chan monastery in the hills of ningbo, china, doing intensive monastic training and completing a pilgrimage to mt putuo

research technician @harvard university department of organismic and evolutionary biology
two years of fish biomechanics research for my international baccalaureate thesis. invited to present my research at the us navy research
conference. first author of a peer-reviewed publication.

languages
English (native), French (proficient), Croatian (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), Italian (intermediate)

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