Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I'm a social entrepreneur and travel writer, and currently the co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, a platform for empowering social innovators.

I recently completed a Masters in Public Policy at Geogretown University, focusing on the intersection of technology and social entrepreneurship. My econometrics-based thesis, "Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New Media and the 2008 Presidential election," is the first such paper to quantify how new media informed the national elections in 2008. For a more fun read, though, check out some of my travel writing which has been featured in Lonely Planet and on the Huffington Post, among other publications.

I graduated from UCLA with degrees in Geography and Political Science, with a focus on cheering on UCLA basketball.  More importantly, I was featured in a newspaper in 5th grade for competing in a POGs tournament, where I was quoted as saying "I like POGs because you can play lots of fun games with them and stuff."

Before launching StartSomeGood in 2011, I worked with a number of socially-minded technology startups, including PICnet, Ashoka,  Hypercities.com, Change.org, The Extraordinaries and iCivics.

Work History

• Ashoka
• Host, The AshokaTECH Podcast
• October 2009 to Present

• I host the AshokaTECH Podcast which discusses how to harness the power of technology and innovation to fundamentally improve the world.

• The Extraordinaries
• April 2009 to June 2009

• Change.org
• January 2009 to April 2009

Education

• Georgetown University
• Master of Public Policy, Technology & Social Entrepreneurship
• 2008 - 2010

• UCLA
• B.A., Geography, Political Science, UCLA Basketball
• 2002 - 2007