Education
PhD in English
Expected 2025
MA in Public Policy
2024
California, United States
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UNESCO, Consultant for book & publishing industry in Africa report
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Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, 2022-25: 34 per year out of 9,000+ graduate students
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Knight Hennessy Scholar, 2019-2021: 68 chosen out of 4,400+ applicants
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Alternate, Stanford Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence (DARE) Doctoral Fellowship
MSt World Literatures in English
2015-2016
Oxfordshire, England
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Presented at 4 conferences (including World Literature & Dissent at St Andrews and Art/Money/Crisis at Cambridge)
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On the board of the Oxford Research in English journal
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Organized two student conferences
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Founded the Racial Inequalities Support Network
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Gave a talk at Oriel College entitled, "The Language of Diversity"
BA (Hons) in English Literature—World Pathway
2012-2015
Coventry, England
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Maxis Scholarship for Excellence Award, competitive national full funding for 3 years
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Grant from Warwick Undergraduate Research Support Scheme
Diploma in Performing Arts
2009-2011
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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2.5 years of practical training in film and stage production
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3-month writing and publicity internship with musical production company, Enfiniti Vision Media
Experience
Enterprise Strategy & Business Management Associate
2018-2019
Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia
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Contributed to the framework and process for extended mergers & acquisitions plan
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Set up forecasting and funnel models for business-to-business sales channels
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Managed strategy alignment and communication up to Board level and for internal and external stakeholders
Management Associate
2016-2018
Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia
1 of 4 from 1000+ candidates; the 2-yr management training program includes rotations, projects, and CSR
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Delivered results within 3-mths in 5 different team rotations: retail, sales, IT project management, pricing, finance
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Presented to CEO on customer journey for prepaid, telematics and channels
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Edited and wrote copy for Maxis Annual Report 2017: ghostwrote Chairman & CEO Statements
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Created the foundational masterlist of company jargon that was the basis for an internal chatbot
English Private Tutor
2017-2019
Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia
Tutor for English Cambridge iGCSE and UK entrance exams (ages 13-16)
Professional skillset
Text Analysis in R
Microsoft Excel
Econometrics/Regression in R
Languages
English (Superior)
Arabic (Novice)
Malay (Advanced)
French (Novice)
Cantonese (Intermediate)
Spanish (Novice)
Chinese (Novice)