Harvard University

Menlo School

Investment Manager at Harvard at Bessemer Venture Partners

Founding the first direct program by a major venture fund to identify and connect Harvard college-level ventures and founders to early-stage funding and mentoring.  Building an alternative pipeline for high-level talent toward high-growth portfolio companies and venture formation.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Investment Manager at Harvard

Our mission at <a href="http://overlooked.com">overlooked.com</a> is to build The Social News Network that ends fake news. We're building the safest place for you to share news articles with your friends, and we sell technology to help newspapers save and make money.

Overlooked

Partnership Specialist

Managed 40+ young employees as Operations Manager for Community Service and Student Services lead administration of services for a community center focused on the intersection of social mobility, mental health, and fitness.  Promoted to executive consultant to the founder, lead the East Palo Alto Tutoring and Tennis Program as well as several other programs.

The Riekes Center

Executive Consultant

Joe Kennedy for US Senate

Campus Director and Intern

Collaborated with a team of seven responsible for 20+ Northern Des Moines precincts totaling 80,000+ people doing data analysis, leadership building, and grassroots support for the campaign, resulting in all of our precincts outperforming internal polling. Gave crucial caucuses speeches for the campaign. Organized grassroots leadership in a specific precinct of 10,000+ people resulting in a 25% swing for Pete.

Pete for America

Fellow

Operations Manager

- Helped Lead the Human Connections Through Gaming Program - Worked under and in an assistive capacity to the Chief Environmental Officer, Gary Riekes

Team Manager

Built a donor outreach database for the Congressman which resulted in a two-fold increase in fundraising from 2012 base year to 2014 - 2018 average  Spearheaded public awareness campaign of the Congressman’s Earned Income Tax Credit expansion proposal which would lift millions of Americans out of poverty.

Ro Khanna for Congress

Donor Intern and Research Assistant

Promoted to Team Leader for the implementation of the Zero Mass Water product, the SOURCE panels, in the Indian Himalayas. Pitched the product to the Indian Military and exceeded sales targets.

Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation

Leadership Team

Estimated and wrote case studies on the Indiana jail bed growth for the In Our Own Backyard Project. Uncovered surging rate of Meth arrests in rural America which brought coverage from the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, etc. to the fact that the incarceration rate in rural areas now exceeds those of urban areas.

Vera Institute of Justice

Research Assistant Intern

- Intern with Hillary For America Finance Team.-Wrote bios for key speakers and officials.-Provided logistical support for fundraising and policy events.

Hillary for America

Research Intern

Developed educational modules on financial literacy 200 person study supporting the thesis that most financial decisions are made emotionally vs. rationally.  The study also revealed inequities in conversations between men and women and native-born and foreign-born participants.

Maxwell Dostart-Meers