I build things that make local government easier to watch, and I am learning the craft of diplomacy on the way to practicing it.
Most people never see a county commission meeting. The agendas run hundreds of pages, the votes happen on a Tuesday morning, and the decisions reach further into daily life than almost anything that happens in Tallahassee or Washington. In August 2026 I co-founded a nonprofit to fix that for Miami-Dade, and I have been building the coverage, the volunteer bench, and the software behind it ever since.
The rest of my work sits in the same territory: government transparency, international politics, and the question of how institutions earn the trust they ask for.
Co-founder and executive director
A nonpartisan, student-run nonprofit covering the Board of County Commissioners. We publish meeting coverage in multiple languages, send volunteers to give public comment, and hold the county to its own sunshine rules. Incorporated in Florida on August 17, 2026; 501(c)(3) status pending. I built the site and the email infrastructure, and I run the editorial standards and the volunteer program.
Founder
The same model, opened up to the other 66 Florida counties. Each county gets a participant guide, a subdomain, and a local team. The bet is that the hardest part of civic journalism is not reporting, it is scaffolding, and scaffolding travels.
Intern
Research and advocacy on ethics and transparency in Florida government, working under Ben Wilcox.
Florida state development director
Fundraising and partnership development for the organization's Florida operations.
Intern, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
Produced a 31-country briefing book ahead of G20 Miami 2026 and audited county trade figures against U.S. Census Bureau data for the Miami Customs District. Briefed Mayor Daniella Levine Cava directly on the findings.
An extended essay reading both accessions through Kuik Cheng-Chwee's framework of hedging behavior among smaller states.
How the Soviet decision to level the castle and the failure of the building meant to replace it shaped the postwar identity of Kaliningrad.
Cheap airframes, improvised munitions, and what happens to a long insurgency when both sides gain an air force.
An examination of where the county's growth pressure and its conservation commitments actually collide, including at the Urban Development Boundary.
I want to join the Foreign Service, most likely on the political or economic track, and I intend to spend a career in it. The work I do now is the same work at a smaller scale: read the documents nobody reads, figure out what a government is actually doing rather than what it says it is doing, and write it down clearly enough that it changes what someone else decides.
If that path closes, political and geopolitical risk analysis is the version of the job that exists in the private sector, and I am building the technical skills to do it well.
I pitch for the varsity baseball team at Miami Beach Senior High. I shoot trap at Markham Park in Broward County, where my best round so far is 21 of 25. And I fish the Everglades backcountry and the Biscayne Bay flats for snook, tarpon, and redfish, all of which go back in the water.
