Writing
Opinion Pieces/Commentary
- Three Perspective Shifts for a Better World: first fellow in the 2019-2020 cohort to publish in Global Health Corps’ Medium blog, Amplify.
- More than a Disease: Migration, Militia, and Money in the Ebola Response: using data visualization to better understand the dynamic factors that contributed to the Ebola epidemic.
- Winning Hearts and Minds through a Shot in the Arm USC Center on Public Diplomacy (with Sridivya Dasaraju, Sameer Nair-Desai, and Hailey Robertson) advocates for a decentralized global health model that prioritizes cooperation in light of global vaccine shortages.
- The Good News:Breaking Bad News Makes a Difference SmartCare BHCS (with Desiree Shapiro)
Crowdfunding
- Dance Mama Dance: Fundraised over $1,000 for Malketha Maternal Services, a nonprofit organization in Uganda that focuses on maternal mental health in early childhood development. Proceeds directed towards Dance Mama Dance, a weekend event geared towards empowering mothers through movement.
- Smiles for Naga Valadia: Fundraised over $3,000 for Project RISHI, a student-run nonprofit that implements sustainable health initiatives in rural India. Proceeds directed towards Smiles for Naga Valadia, an oral hygiene and tobacco de-addiction project that utilized a combination of education and a dental camp to improve oral health in the village.
Videography
Project RISHI
Co-created the following short films as the Director of RISHI Films on the executive board.
- Phir Milenge (filming, editing): documents Project RISHI’s oral hygiene initiative with a special focus on interpersonal relationships with village members and community organizers.
- 8000 Miles is Just a Number (directing, filming, editing): showcasing how Project RISHI can remain connected to a village across the world.
- Pushing the Envelope (directing, filming, editing): an exposé on the student experience in project RISHI, in contrast to the loneliness and cynicism that college students may face.
Global Health Corps
Selected as one of 32 fellows from 4,000 applicants (<1% acceptance rate). Placed at LifeNet International, a nonprofit organization that provides continuing medical education and improves community health worker capacity in maternal and child healthcare.
- GHC Training Institute 2019 (directing, filming, editing): highlight video of Global Health Corps’ training institute in Rwanda.
- Dance Mama Dance (directing, filming, editing): a highlight video for the first installment of Malketha Maternal Services’ Dance Mama Dance. Initiative served as the Uganda cohort’s community project for the 2019-2020 year.
- LifeNet International: Compassionate Care: (directing, filming, editing): compiled interviews of LifeNet International’s staff and partner community health workers asking, “What does compassionate care mean to you?” Video showcased on nonprofit Facebook page.
UCSD Free Clinic
- Healing Together: Free Clinic Gala (filming, editing): produced video for end-of-year gala, which attracted prominent donors in the San Diego community.
- Heard, Healed, and Delivered: UCSD SRFCP Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (filming, editing): displays UCSD’s commitment to free clinic patients through food and medication deliveries during the pandemic. Won 1st place for videography in UC Global Health Day Creative Expressions contest.