“Leo has many strong traits that make him a valuable member of any product development team. He was brought into our project to do front end work under the guidance of a senior programmer. He transitioned to manage all the essential front and back-end elements with periodic guidance from a senior team. While persistent like most good programmers, he is always alert to propose limits in areas that have high effort and low business value. He also has excellent communication skills in both directions: he listens carefully to the essential project goals and freely suggests ideas to contribute to practical solutions. I highly recommend him.”
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data practitioner trained in social and behavioral science, data analytics, and liberal…
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Happy Birthday to Kellie Wells-Brinkley, Hampton University alum and Olympic medalist! Your spectacular 2011 season, claiming both indoor and outdoor…
Happy Birthday to Kellie Wells-Brinkley, Hampton University alum and Olympic medalist! Your spectacular 2011 season, claiming both indoor and outdoor…
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🚨 dbt Will Not Solve All Your Data Problems 🚨 Thinking about implementing dbt to boost your data maturity? Hold on! While dbt is powerful, its…
🚨 dbt Will Not Solve All Your Data Problems 🚨 Thinking about implementing dbt to boost your data maturity? Hold on! While dbt is powerful, its…
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Experience & Education
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Volunteer Experience
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Organizer
Congenital Hyperinsulinism International
- Present 10 years 7 months
Health
Congenital Hyperinsulinism International (CHI) is an organization that connects families affected with congenital hyperinsulinism to vital resources as well as each other. Each year, the CHI team will cycle at the University of Pennsylvania Million Dollar Bike Ride. Every dollar that we raise for this ride will go to research that will help affected families and patients live full and healthy lives.
I have served as the team captain for the CHI cycling team for the past two years…Congenital Hyperinsulinism International (CHI) is an organization that connects families affected with congenital hyperinsulinism to vital resources as well as each other. Each year, the CHI team will cycle at the University of Pennsylvania Million Dollar Bike Ride. Every dollar that we raise for this ride will go to research that will help affected families and patients live full and healthy lives.
I have served as the team captain for the CHI cycling team for the past two years, organizing cycling and fundraising efforts and participating in the ride. I also work with the CHI Board of Directors throughout the year to organize other fundraising and advocacy events.
Publications
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Why Does Amazon Mechanical Turk Still Exist?
Harvard Business School (The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship)
See publicationA blog post written for a course taught by Prof. Benjamin Edelman in the Harvard Business School MBA Elective Curriculum. I examine the network structure of Amazon Mechanical Turk and discuss apparent threats to the model from both within and from upstart competitors.
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The Russian Land in Ievtushenko's Babii Iar [Бабий Яр]: Questioning an Anti-Semitic National Identity
The UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies
See publicationTomes have been scrawled on the subject, but there remains no consensus on what constitutes "authentic" Russian identity. Ievgenii Ievtushenko confronts this ambiguity by pitting one pillar of Russian culture, the vast physical land, against the anti-Semitism that permeates both popular culture and official policy. His 1961 poem, Babii Iar, presents a paradox in which the state's failure to condemn or prevent the mass murder of European Jews is mourned by the anthropomorphized land. This…
Tomes have been scrawled on the subject, but there remains no consensus on what constitutes "authentic" Russian identity. Ievgenii Ievtushenko confronts this ambiguity by pitting one pillar of Russian culture, the vast physical land, against the anti-Semitism that permeates both popular culture and official policy. His 1961 poem, Babii Iar, presents a paradox in which the state's failure to condemn or prevent the mass murder of European Jews is mourned by the anthropomorphized land. This representation calls into question the tradition of Russian literature to respect the physical land and anti-Semitism as separate and venerated national institutions.
Ievtushenko published Babii Iar during Khrushchev's Thaw, when a relaxation of censorship allowed artists to challenge standardized cultural tropes. His use of familiar nationalistic imagery evoking the physical environment is interwoven with rich historical and Biblical references to the suffering of the Jewish people. Why, the narrator asks, must this continue in the name of Russian identity? During an era of open questioning and reflection on the legacy of the Soviet Union, Ievtushenko's work presents a specific criticism of the failure of the Russian literary canon, the government, and the people to rectify the injustices of Russian anti-Semitism. Babii Iar liberates the Jews from the dark, cramped shtetl to which they were confined both in literature and reality by deconstructing the notion that "authentic" Russian identity is inseparable from anti-Semitism and ethnic discrimination.
Honors & Awards
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Hacker Voted Prize
Hacking Eating Tracking
Winner (one of three teams) of the Hacker Voted Prize for receiving the most votes from fellow participants in the hackathon.
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Best Product
HACK HEALTH MIT Cornell Health Hackathon 2015
Winner of the Best Product award.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Russian
Full professional proficiency
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