Current Jobs

▪  Deputy New Media Director for Mark Warner’s successful campaign for U.S. Senate. 

Previous Jobs

▪ Research Assistant/Blog Editor at the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at the George Washington University.

▪ Associate Writer at The Hotline, a publication devoted to politics, part of the National Journal Group.

▪ Intern and assistant to the director of Forward Together PAC, the political action committee of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.  Helped to create Forward Together’s Youthroots, a Web-driven youth outreach program that encouraged young people to vote in the 2006 midterm elections.  Assisted in the communications, political, policy, finance, and Internet teams. Duties included: blogging and Internet outreach, speech writing, press clips, event planning and management, policy and political research.

▪ Editor-in-chief (2006) of The Daily Colonial, a daily, online student newspaper at GW.

Education

▪ Graduated from the George Washington University, with a degree in political science and a secondary field of study in international affairs.  Graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in June 2004 with Honors.
▪ Attended the prestigious New Jersey Governor’s School of Public Issues in July 2003.

For more information, please see the resume. PDF | WORD

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Courses taken at GW:

• 20th Century Political Thought
• Biology
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• Comparative and International Politics
• Constitutional Law
• Economics
• French
• History of the British Empire
• Intro to Political Management
• International Economics
• International Law
• International Relations of East Asia
• International Organizations
• Journalism
• Language and Politics
• Media Law
• Media, Politics & Government, with Steve Roberts
• Modern Political Communication and Rhetoric
• Political Geography
• Politics of South Asia
• Religion and Politics
• Religions of the East and West
• Research Methods
• Statistics
• Television Production
• U.S. Diplomatic History
• U.S.-China Relations
• “Washington Reporters,” with Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution

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In October 2005, I had the opportunity to attend a White House press briefing. I asked Press Secretary Scott McClellan a question regarding Social Security:

Q You talked about this briefly, about Social Security reform. The President made a big deal about it at the beginning of the year, but since then he’s had a lot of political trouble, and it has sort of fallen from the limelight. So has the President stopped pursuing Social Security reform?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, he’ll never stop pursuing reform of Social Security. This is a high priority for the President, because the longer we wait, the more costly it becomes, and the more limited our options become. We need to save Social Security for today’s seniors, and we need to strengthen it for our children and grandchildren.

Now he talked about recently, in the Rose Garden, when he was asked a question about this, how there appears to be a diminished appetite at the Capitol right now for moving forward on it at this time. But he will continue pushing it. In fact, we have been crisscrossing the United States over the course of the past year or so, talking about the importance of getting this done. And I think you’ve seen that the American people now recognize that there is a serious problem facing Social Security, and it requires action. And the sooner we act, the better it’s going to be for all Americans.

And that’s why the President has made it a priority and is going to continue pushing forward to save and strengthen Social Security. He was elected to come here to solve problems, and he recognizes that. And that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. He’s not afraid of taking on big challenges; in fact, he believes that’s part of the job, that we are here to solve the big problems for the benefit of all Americans.

Click here to see the transcript and watch a video of the briefing, provided by whitehouse.gov. Though the video does not show my face, you can hear my voice; I ask the last question.