Public Scholarship
Speaker Engagements And Conferences
Speaker, “Experiences Implementing Youth LGBTQ+ Programs”, USAID-Gender Community of Practice, 2021. Online.
Conference presenter and paper, “Sino-Japanese security at a precipice: the security balance of East-Asia”. IAPSS 2021 World Congress, 2021.
Speaker, “Cybersecurity - Employing European Youth Through Non-Formal Education: The Digital Competence Framework”. YouthProAktiv (Erasmus+ Project), 2021. Madrid.
Speaker, “Being an ally in storytelling”. IVolunteer International Annual Conference, 2021. Online.
Speaker, “Cybersecurity Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices”. Union University Belgrade, 2021. Online.
Conference attendee. The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR), Harvard University, 2021. Online.
Speaker, “Writing a book: topics, chapters & guidelines”, Strategic Policy Group, 2021. Online.
Speaker, “Careers in International Relations”, Swarthmore College (IR Club), 2021. Online.
Conference presenter and paper, “The rise of a new world disorder”. Student Congress of International Balkan University, 2017.
Entrepreneurship
Empowering Diversity in Tech and Entrepreneurship (EDiTS)
In 2017, I co-founded the non-profit EDiTS - Empowering Diversity in Tech and Entrepreneurship, a diversity-oriented NGO born out of the Global Shapers Madrid hub, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Global Shapers is a youth network focused on boosting dialogue, action and change through projects with a social impact focus to tackle changes at the local, regional and global levels.
EDiTS aimed to promote fair and equal access to work through the diversification of profiles in Spain’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. With the support of the World Economic Forum, Google Campus, and the Impact Hub, we organized a flagship event with high-profile speakers – including Cristina Aranda (Co-Founder of Women Tech), Marta Fernández Herraiz (Founder LesWorking), Paola Garcia (CEO of Chefly), Lorena Martín (Spanish Ambassador for the Technovation Challenge), Adriana Botelho (CEO of KeepCoding), and Cristina Antelo (CSR lead de SAP Spain) – to offer insight into the path towards more inclusive and diverse work communities in Spain and abroad.
The NGO operated until 2019, and drove me to continue to research and build on entrepreneurial communities as drivers of agency, independence, and empowerment.
