Leadership & Policy

iStartValley · Intern → Sr. Director, Youth Committee Board

iStart Insider and startup strategy

On the iStartValley Youth Committee Board I saw that the cohort was missing a shared why, so I opened a discussion and helped the team commit to one: equitable, easy-to-access resources for young entrepreneurs. We scrapped an inaccessible blog for the iStart Insider podcast, now past 2.3k streams and in Spotify's top 25%, with episodes featuring multiple six-figure founders. Alongside it I ran product-market-fit analysis and pitched a $300k startup concept.

• iStartValley Innovator Award & International Semifinalist (won $300).
• Conrad Innovator.

NSDA Debate · Varsity, School Co-Captain

Debate, and widening the door to it

As varsity co-captain I have earned 960+ NSDA points across Public Forum, Congressional, and World Schools, qualified for Nationals twice in World Schools, reached the Public Forum state final, and was named an Academic All-American. As Secretary of the Colorado chapter of Equality in Forensics, a student-led nonprofit that makes debate more accessible, I helped grow the chapter from 5 members to more than 40.

American Legion Colorado Boys State

Senate floor and courtroom

Serving as Senator and committee chair, Director of Economic Relations, and Attorney and Judge, I chaired a Senate committee, sponsored small-business bills, managed financial-literacy grants, and litigated First and Sixth Amendment cases.

Sewa Design to Lead · Economics For Leaders

From research to the statehouse

Through Sewa's Design to Lead I took the Stanford Biodesign process from analysis to advocacy, leading a team to lobby for healthcare-workforce visa policy in Colorado, including expanding H-1B access and restoring the H-1C visa for healthcare workers and certified nursing assistants, in work with Representative Megan Lukes. Earlier service ranged from a resume-building workshop and job connections to fundraising for homeless residents. I was also selected for the Economics For Leaders cohort, where I served as a simulation executive.

Philosophy

How I lead

I treat leadership as the pursuit of systemic, tangible impact: not just a what, but a foundational why and a strategic how. In practice that means leading from the front and only asking of others what I have done myself, leading with empathy for people's different strengths and needs, and staying accountable by owning my mistakes and treating them as room to grow. Improvement over perfection.