Rhea Jain

Experience

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  Startup Smartup

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Virtual Instruction Leader

  - Teaches course to middle-high school students on entrepreneurship, focusing on value of running small businesses in youth.- Develops financial literacy curriculum and project-based learning modules for students, working with Department of Education in the state of Oklahoma to revamp educational content for teacher usage.

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  Non-Trivial

  Jul 2023 - Oct 2024

  Facilitated Winter 2023 cohort by supervising 10+ students in weekly discussions, coaching students in 1:1 office hours, and suggesting improvements to ongoing projects. Directly coached 1st and 3rd place winners of cohort.Facilitated Summer 2024 cohort, expanding reach to 300+ participants, hosting major program events including interview with major philosopher Peter Singer. Expanded outreach efforts and provided guidance on projects related to biosecurity, nuclear risk, food insecurity, and more. Directly coached 1st place winner of cohort. Show less

  • Facilitator

    Oct 2023 - Oct 2024

  • Research Fellow

    Jul 2023 - Sept 2023
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  MVLA Speech and Debate

  Aug 2023 - now

  Parliamentary Debate Coach

  Coaches parliamentary debate team for Mountain View-Los Altos High Schools. Prepares curriculum and researches topics for discussion, runs practices, and judges at local competitions. Directly coached students in the Top 10 teams nationwide, including those who championed the National Parliamentary Debate Invitational (2023).

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  Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

  Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  Research Fellow

  Selected as 1 of 11 fellows in Stanford's Existential Risk Initiative (SERI) Summer Fellowship to undertake a research project with Professor Paul Edwards at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. Ongoing paper focuses on climate change as a global anthropogenic risk and combines 20+ years of literature on climate science with modern findings on existential risk.

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  Contra Costa Public Defender

  Jul 2024 - Sept 2024

  Intern

  Interns for the Public Defender's Office, working with two public defenders in the Post Conviction Unit on cases regarding the Racial Justice Act. Completes literature reviews on relevant leads in cases, contacts experts for testimony, and compiles relevant statistics on racially biased policing.

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  Hoover Institution, Stanford University

  Oct 2024 - now

  Research Assistant

  Research Assistant (RA) for the Bio-strategies and Leadership Program (BSL), working on biosecurity policy. Collects data, writes reports, and facilitates interviews to contribute to pending paper.