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Experience

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  U.S. House of Representatives

  May 2011 - Jun 2011

  Internship With Representative Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)

  Conducted constituent tours of the U.S Capitol by explaining its history and basics of the U.S. political system Responsible for supporting constituent communications.

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  Linda McMahon for United States Senate

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Internship

  Spent the summer knocking on doors, phone banking, and gathering signatures for Linda McMahon’s 2012 bid for United States Senate.

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  FreedomWorks

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Internship

  Researched Common Core legislation in states throughout the country as part of a summer internship in the Grassroots Department.

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  National Republican Congressional Committee

  Jan 2014 - May 2014

  Intern - Digital Department

  Drafted tweets to be sent out by the committee’s Twitter account as well as logging and transcribing video footage of Democratic Congressional candidates. Internship conducted concurrently with a full college course load.

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  Gravity Strategic Communications

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2022

  Manage client relationships and compile opposition and vulnerability research for candidates throughout the country. Examine legal documents, federal election records, news articles, state archive records, and social media sites to ensure a complete and total accurate picture of the individual. Fact check and edit press releases, op-eds, and research documents for both corporate and political clients. Write executive summaries for research documents that allow clients to quickly digest information. Supervised interns; assigning tasks and training them on different research methods. Show less

  • Account Executive

    Jan 2018 - Oct 2022

  • Research Analyst and Assistant to the President

    Jun 2014 - Jan 2018
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  Black Rock Group

  Nov 2022 - now

  Senior Director - Research