Freelance Strategist
New YorkJuly 2023 - present
- Bring together trends, data, and expert opinion to build new ideas and spark excitement for a way forward.
- Facilitate and design creative ideation + research workshops, uncovering insights to guide decision making.
- Collaborate with clients to build highly actionable and impactful strategic tools to achieve business goals.
B+A
Strategist, New YorkNovember 2022 – December 2023
- Independently delivered insights and strategy focused on Gen Z, equity, and futureproofing, allowing clients to reach unique markets
- Conducted impactful research using qualitative and quantitative methods, analyzing first to third party data to answer client briefs.
- Crafted beautiful and clear research outputs that told a story and provided tangible solutions to client briefs.
- Managed projects with concurrent work streams using strict time management and reactive flexibility.
- Contribute as a source of inspiration by sharing emerging cultural trends, sharing historic findings, and act as a resource for data literacy.
AEA Consulting
Research Analyst, London + New YorkMarch 2020 - October 2022
- Performed mixed method research on the creative industries across global markets, using diverse techniques such as survey design and analysis, market analysis, and trends monitoring.
- Synthesize findings to inform the development of strategic recommendations, creating outputs such as cultural and programming strategies, business and strategic plans, and financial models
- Produced deliverables optimized for each client, ranging from media organizations, cultural organizations, to government agencies and real estate developers.
- Represented AEA for business development and in public forums, presenting white papers and research.
- Monitored industry trends and collected them to develop thought leadership
- Chaired AEA’s internal DEAI working group and helped author its first DEAI Plan and an updated internal manifesto.
EDUCATION
University College, London
M.A. History of Art, with Distinction (4.0 GPA)- Dissertation: “Hung Liu’s “Chinese Prostitutes” and (inter)mediating history”
- Specialisations: Weimar Germany Art & Architecture; Fin-de-siècle French painting; Contemporary South African Photography & Video.
University of Cambridge, Robinson College, UK
B.A. History (Hons), 2.i (3.8 GPA)- Dissertation: “Everyday Life in London’s Chinatown, c. 1960-1990” (Oral history project)
- Specialisations: South & East Asian Modernities, Gender in Republican China.