Where I go
to watch it break.

GSI Foundation: Outreach & Policy Team

Worked on the Global Solutions Initiative's outreach and policy teams ahead of the Global Solutions Summit 2026. Tasks included participant coordination across the GSI network, drafting briefing documents for working group sessions, and supporting policy communications. The GSI is the official think-tank network for the G20 and G7 processes.

What stuck: the distance between a briefing document and a decision is measured in people, not pages.

Global Solutions Summit 2026

Attended as GSI staff. The Summit is the flagship event of the G20 think-tank process: policymakers, academics, and civil society presenting recommendations to G20 working groups. What the Summit makes visible, for anyone paying attention, is the gap between the quality of the recommendations produced and the thinness of the mechanisms that are supposed to carry them into implementation. That gap is the thing I kept noticing.

What stuck: everyone in the room agreed the recommendations were good. That was never the question.

BBIS Climate Summit 2026

Organized and co-moderated a 100-person summit at Berlin Brandenburg International School, structured around one question: why does the gap between climate finance commitments and actual capital deployment persist, and what would it take to close it?

Four expert panelists. Prepared discussion briefs and moderated structured Q&A across two sessions. Produced a formal summit report summarizing findings and areas of divergence among panelists. The summit format was deliberately designed to surface disagreement rather than manufacture consensus; the most useful thing an event like this can produce is a clear map of where the real disputes lie.

What stuck: disagreement, surfaced early and on purpose, is a feature.

Model United Nations

Seven conferences across four years, three of them in the Security Council, representing the United States twice, South Africa twice, Russia, Luxembourg, and Pakistan at different tables. The range of positions is the point: defending a permanent member's veto logic one year, arguing the case of a smaller state with far less leverage the next. At NHSMUN in the UNGA, New York 2023, I was the youngest delegate among thousands from around the world, the largest conference of its kind at the time. That mostly meant I had to be more prepared than anyone else.

The other half of it: I've been leading my school's MUN club as President since ninth grade. Organizing the conferences, writing the new curriculum, preparing delegates who've never touched a resolution, and even coaching ones older than me. Teaching is where the gaps in your own understanding show up fastest.

What stuck: the youngest person in the room has to be the most prepared.

conference count current as of August 2026

Duke of Edinburgh Award

A multi-day expedition: kayaking, trekking, navigating with paper maps, carrying everything. At some point the kayak capsized in a moving river. We ran out of water before reaching the halfway point of the day. A thunderstorm came in overnight and nearly flooded the tents. None of that was in the plan.

The leadership piece isn't the hike. It's the decisions you make when things have already gone wrong and everyone is tired, including you. The policies I research are only useful if someone can implement them on the ground under imperfect conditions. This is what imperfect conditions actually feel like.

What stuck: you don't learn what breaks under pressure until something actually breaks under pressure.

US Embassy Berlin-Brandenburg Youth Advisory Council

Youth adviser, 2026–27 cycle. The council advises the US Embassy on bilateral US–Germany policy engagement, cultural diplomacy, and public outreach priorities relevant to the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The role sits at the intersection of the two countries I've lived in; the cross-cultural fluency I've developed is what makes it useful rather than ceremonial.