Athletics
Varsity Swim Team
Alma College Athletics · Aug 2025 – Present
Competing at the NCAA Division III level as a full-time CS student. Practice starts before most people are awake, and balancing that with coursework, projects, and campus involvement has shaped how I approach everything — tight schedules, consistent output, no excuses.
The discipline of competitive swimming translates directly into software development. You don't skip sets because they're hard, and you don't skip edge cases because they're inconvenient. The mindset is the same.
Leadership
Campus Clubs & Organizations
Alma College · 2023 – Present
Business Professionals of America
BPA Chapter — Active Member
Competed at the Michigan BPA 54th Annual State Leadership Conference (Feb 2026, Grand Rapids) and won 1st Place in Fundamentals of Web Design. Represented Alma College alongside the full chapter team.
Squirrel Club
President
Serve as President of the Squirrel Club at Alma College — leading meetings, organizing events, and keeping the group running smoothly.
International Club
Vice President of Finance
Manage the financial operations of the International Club — budgeting, funding requests, and financial reporting for club events and activities.
Volunteer Work
Giving Back
Community & Service · Alma College
Feed My Starving Children
Volunteer · Mobile Pack Site
Joined Alma College volunteers at a Feed My Starving Children mobile pack site — packaging nutritious meals for children around the world. A hands-on reminder that impact can happen anywhere, including small towns.
PlaidWorks Micro-Internship
Farm Volunteer · Alma, MI · Summer 2024
Completed a PlaidWorks micro-internship at a small farm in Alma — watering crops, cultivating vegetables, and helping with daily farm tasks. Awarded the PlaidWorks Micro-Internship Award by Alma College (Jul 2024). Deepened my commitment to community service and sustainable agriculture.
Community Kitchen Volunteer
Food Service · Community Shelter
Volunteered at a local community kitchen, helping prepare and serve meals to those in need. Hands-on service work that reinforced the importance of showing up for your community beyond the campus bubble.
Other Clubs
Also a Member Of
Fellowship & Internship
Posey Global Fellowship
Osgood Center for International Studies — Washington, D.C. · Summer 2025 · Internship
Selected through a competitive process to intern at a Washington D.C. think tank conducting international policy and AI research alongside scholars from around the world. Took me out of my CS comfort zone entirely — and that was the point. Communicating complex ideas to non-technical audiences, collaborating with people from completely different fields, presenting research under scrutiny: all of it made me a sharper thinker and a cleaner communicator.
