Research & Programming
Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
To support the development of women’s empowerment programs in Bangladesh, researched and wrote four reports, including programming recommendations.
Reviewed 40+ nonprofit initiatives across the Global South, alongside reports, articles, and documentary media on the status of women in Bangladesh. Proposed a five-branch empowerment program model that included an entertainment-based outreach component.
To discover best practices of effective public awareness campaigns in developing countries, reviewed, assessed, and catalogued 30 campaigns on topics such as health, environment, and finance.
To find proven practices and innovative programming to best engage, impact, and support entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, reviewed over 50 programs and organizations supporting entrepreneurs in both developed and developing countries.
To find best practices in youth engagement, reviewed over 75 programs from libraries, schools, and communities centers as well as programs lead by NGOs and nonprofits in both first world and developing nations.
Creativity Journal for Women
For this women’s creativity journal, designed monthly themes with weekly writing exercises connected to each theme. Researched and catalogued 365 inspirational quotes that matched daily writing exercises.
Co-Working Spaces
To better understand the relationship between Santa Monica’s entertainment industry and co-working spaces in the area, reviewed 40+ articles and reports, reviewed websites of 20 local co-working spaces, visited 8 of these locations, and reviewed 20 local production company office locations.
Selected Graduate Research Topics, University of Amsterdam (2018)
The Multiplicitous Movie Heroine: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Representations of
Women in Present-Day Hollywood Blockbuster Films
For this thesis, designed and applied a rhizomatic feminist film analysis framework to examine representations of female protagonists in Rogue One and Wonder Woman.
Doing “Woman” Right: Body Shame and Heteronormative Feminine Gender Performativity
Using auto-ethnography, explored body shame as “correct” heteronormative female behavior.
Body, Sex, Home, Woman: Feeling “At home”
in the Female Body
Using participatory action research, this proposal sought to explore how women define their relationship to their body and how the language used impacts their lives.
“When I’m Really Judging Myself…”:
Shame, The Female Body, and Identity
When women experience body shame, do they identify it as themselves, or something other from themselves?