Where I go
to watch it break.

GSI Foundation — Outreach & Policy Team

Worked on the Global Solutions Initiative's outreach and policy teams ahead of the Global Solutions Summit 2026. Tasks included participant coordination across the GSI network, drafting briefing documents for working group sessions, and supporting policy communications. The GSI is the official think-tank network for the G20 and G7 processes.

What stuck: the distance between a briefing document and a decision is measured in people, not pages.

Global Solutions Summit 2026

Attended as GSI staff. The Summit is the flagship event of the G20 think-tank process — policymakers, academics, and civil society presenting recommendations to G20 working groups. What the Summit makes visible, for anyone paying attention, is the gap between the quality of the recommendations produced and the thinness of the mechanisms that are supposed to carry them into implementation. That gap is the thing I kept noticing.

What stuck: everyone in the room agreed the recommendations were good. That was never the question.

BBIS Climate Summit 2026

Organized and co-moderated a 100-person summit at Berlin Brandenburg International School, structured around one question: why does the gap between climate finance commitments and actual capital deployment persist, and what would it take to close it?

Four expert panelists. Prepared discussion briefs and moderated structured Q&A across two sessions. Produced a formal summit report summarizing findings and areas of divergence among panelists. The summit format was deliberately designed to surface disagreement rather than manufacture consensus — the most useful thing an event like this can produce is a clear map of where the real disputes lie.

What stuck: disagreement, surfaced early and on purpose, is a feature.

Model United Nations

Formal public speaking in diplomatic contexts — arguing positions at the podium, drafting position papers, negotiating resolutions. The skill isn't representing a country; it's learning to think inside a constrained system and argue persuasively within its logic. That's directly useful for understanding how policy-making actually works across international bodies.

What stuck: you learn a system fastest by arguing inside its rules.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

A multi-day expedition trek through demanding terrain — navigating with paper maps, carrying everything, managing group dynamics under fatigue. The leadership piece isn't the hike; it's making decisions under uncertainty when everyone is tired, including you. The policies I research are only useful if someone can implement them on the ground in imperfect conditions. This is what imperfect conditions feel like.

What stuck: implementation is a physical fact. Fatigue is part of the spec.

US Embassy Berlin-Brandenburg Youth Advisory Council

Youth adviser, 2026–27 cycle. The council advises the US Embassy on bilateral US–Germany policy engagement, cultural diplomacy, and public outreach priorities relevant to the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The role sits at the intersection of the two countries I've lived in — and the cross-cultural fluency I've developed is what makes it useful rather than ceremonial.

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