Placement: Health & Human Services Department, Administrative Division
Projects: Project Coordinator for the Department’s Ethics Hotline (designed to protect the department from inappropriate or illegal behavior and provide employees an additional vehicle for communicating their concerns); Department Project Coordinator for the Mayor’s One-Stop Permitting Initiative; devise strategies to improve department performance to meet national accreditation standards; develop and implement the department’s student internship program; identify potential areas where healh policy changes are warranted and draft legislation.
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
School: Davidson College
Field of Study: Anthropology
Selected Activities and Community Involvement: Asian Cultural Awareness Association; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Prior Work Experience: Music Fellow, Davidson College
Why Houston is important to me: I have the opportunity to explore the meaning of diversity as it relates to municipal government, public policy, and the South. Moreover, Houston, Texas can serve as a model of how to promote, maintain, and serve a diverse community.
Something unique about me: As an undergraduate, I worked with a small, service-learning group that brought a campus-wide composting system to Davidson College, which was implemented the following year as a part of the Year of Sustainability.
What I’m Doing Now: I am an analyst in the Mayor of Atlanta’s Office of Performance Management.