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Education
Pomona College | Bachelor's of Art, Sociology Major, Human Centered Design Concentration and Economics Minor
2021-2025
- GPA: 3.98/4
- Activities and societies: Board of Trustees Representative for the Educational Quality Committee, Asian American Resource Center (AARC) Intern, Pomona Consulting Group (Consultant), Judicial Council Panelist, International Student Mentor Program (ISMP) mentor, Asian American Mentor Program (AAMP) mentor, 5C BTS Club, The Student Life newspaper | selected for and published in Pomona College's Writing Center's annual publication, "essay" (2022)
- Honors: Pomona College Scholar (6/8 semesters) - awarded to top 25% of grade based on GPA (4.0)
Relevant Coursework:
- ENGR180 Human Centered Design and ENGR186 Advanced Human Centered Design
- Conducted 3 projects through the full design and research process, and additional project directly with a client
- SOC102 Qualitative Research Methods
- Conducted a semester-long research project on international student belonging and community formation with interviews and ethnographic fieldwork methods
- ECON132 Empirical Methods of Industrial Organization
- Learning R for quantitative data analysis
- SOC189T Sociology of Waste
- Conducted generative research, qualitatively coded interviews, empathy mapping
- SOC051 Introduction to Sociology
- Conducted an ethnographic project based on grounded theory
- SOC189S Consumer Society and Culture
- Conducted two ethnographic projects connected to the sociology of consumption and the consumption of high culture
- SOC190 Senior Seminar
- Wrote a 20-page literature review, “In a Man’s World: The Role of Education on Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh”
- MS051 Introduction to Digital Media Studies
- focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI), data as meaning-making, gamification, and interactions, (human-computer relations and the interface)
- ECON150 Industrial Organization
- ECON057 Economic Statistics
Relevant Experience
Jun 2023 - present
Jan 2025 - May 2025
May 2024 - April 2025
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Aug 2022 - May 2023
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
American International School Dhaka | High School
2017-2021
GPA: 3.98/4.00
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: 43/45
- Higher Level Courses: Psychology (7/7), Economics (7/7), English Language and Literature (6/7)
- Honors: Highest Honor Roll; Top Student Awards for Psychology (11), English (9), History (10), Math (9)
- Involvements: National Honor Society President, Student Council, Model United Nations, Varsity Track and Field (Captain), Varsity Swimming (Captain), Green Team