Employment
Education
2015 – 2018
Younger Lives
(www.youngerlives.com)
Communications development during launch of the 7 week plan, including editing content for printed and email formats of the plan.
Devising surveys for feedback on the plan, including habit changing tracking.
Designing and running the accounting processes in place.
2015-2016
John Randall Books of Asia
(www.booksofasia.com)
Managing and input of design to the development of a new website for the company, coordinating the demands of the CEO with the web developer.
Rearranging the indexing and database systems to make them more user friendly.
Filing and creating an index for the photographs of the book collection.
2012-2015
UK Council for Psychotherapy
Membership and Events Coordinator
(www.ukcp.org.uk)
Dealing with member and public queries and renewals over the phone, via email and LinkdIn.
Devising, running and assisting with various conferences, workshops and staff engagement initiatives including Psychotherapy Awareness Day and a database training programme.
Input into workshops for the Digital Delivery Project, focusing development and improvement the new website and database.
Handling data extraction from the Integra database for reports for senior management staff as well as proposing and instigating ideas for data access and storage on the database.
2011 - 2012
Dojupa Group
Event Host
Working on high profile car events, such as Formula 1 and dealing with clients such as Sony America and Warner Brothers
Leading and working within a team of staff at Formula 1 races, ensuring that the team are aware of the schedule and what is required of them in a given situation throughout the event, including daily briefing.
Forming working relationships with clients before, during and after the event.
Acting as interpreter between Italian, French and American clients in coordinating staff from different countries.
2011-2012
Chambers and Partners
Researcher/Writer
Researching a wide spectrum of legal markets including Banking & Finance in Greece and Dispute Resolution in Romania.
Carrying out in depth telephone interviews with clients and lawyers.
Writing succinct editorial detailing my findings and compiling a ranking of law firms and lawyer for each market based on detailed research.
2009 - 2012
Tibet Relief Fund
Assistant to the Fundraising Manager
Event assisting for the Dalai Lama´s 75th birthday festival and Dalai Lama visits to the UK, including researching and contacting venues, potential sponsors and stallholders.
General office duties, secretarial, admin and archiving - including use of the database FileMakerPro.
2010 - 2011
Michael Aris Trust for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Trust Assistant
Initiating an archive project for the trust’s documents including letters and photographs, creating an index for these documents.
Assistant duties to the main trustee - managing financial documents related to the trust.
2010
Demotix
Editor and Publisher
(www.demotix.com)
Managing the content of the site, editing and promoting the incoming stories via social media including Twitter and Facebook.
2018 - Present Umeå Institute of Design
MFA Interaction Design
2017 Umeå Institute of Design
Industrial Design Intensive
2016 Morley College
Field Recording and Location Sound
(3 hours/w ,10 Weeks)
2016 Hawkwood Nursery/ Organiclea
Food Growing Course
(10 weeks, 1 day/week course)
2007 - 2008 University of Bologna, Italy,
Erasmus-Socrates Student Exchange
2005 - 2009 University College London
B.A. (Hons) Language and Culture (2:1)
Italian, Danish and Russian
1998- 2004 Exeter School – AS and A2 level
Mathematics (A), French (A), German (B)
Physics (B), Art & Design (A)
Voluntary work
2018
Ställverkert UID Union: co-editing and and co-designing the school's Wozzop Magazine.
2017
Stepney Green City Farm: helping with gardening tasks and animal feeding.
2012
Mae Tao Clinic: writing and editing donor reports for the clinic as well as the community schools project. Advising on the design of a website for the local community schools projects.
2008
Associazione Harambe Bologna, Italy : Working with migrant Roma communities in and around Bologna.
Languages
English (native), French (native), Italian (fluent), German, Russian and Danish (basic). I am currently trying to learn Swedish.
Software
Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Adobe Family (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
3d Software (Rhino and SolidWorks)
Rendering Software (Keyshot)
Hobbies
The following are some of the things that keep me happy!
Gardening
Singing with these people
Food
Swimming
Dancing