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Francesca Merrick

Student
New York, NY
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fm2520@columbia.edu
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6077930221
Third-year pre-law undergraduate student with experience in non-profit content creation and community organizing looking to expand into policy and legal research
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Work Experience

Columbia University in the City of New York

Intern at Rethinking Justice Columbia
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2018 - Current
  • Assists Columbia and NYU professors teaching philosophy classes of 18-20 students at the Brooklyn Municipal Detention Center (MDC)
  • Creates and maintains volunteer schedule for 9 interns and professors
  • Manages all volunteer forms for interns and professors and coordinates with MDC education staff
  • Leads Theater-of-the-Oppressed programming to supplement class learning
  • Generates data and about upcoming grant opportunities and identifies key areas for potential program expansion

Park Literary & Media

Literary Intern
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Mar 2018 - May 2018
  • Edited promotional material for 2018 London Book Fair
  • Strategized business meetings and helped to facilitate new client meetings
  • Organized over 300 books into permanent display
  • Digitally filed more than 200 client earnings reports onto company server

Harvey Klinger Inc

Literary Intern
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Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
  • Evaluated approximately 250 author queries each week
  • Developed and maintained client relationships through clear, concise, and professional communication
  • Obtained 7 new potential clients for company by assessing and recognizing quality of queries

Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom

Senior Intern and Youth Coordinator
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May 2017 - Sep 2017
  • Designed and implemented 8-week high school internship program focused on lake-based ecology
  • Mentored 6 high school interns and oversaw their individualized research projects
  • Compiled final program report including suggestions for future changes based on post-program survey
  • Presented new marketing strategies for The Floating Classroom during board meetings based on my review of our institutional donor databases

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Education and Curriculum Design Intern
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Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
  • Drafted 7 lesson plans about gender and sexuality for grades K-1 utilizing the New York State Sex Education Standards Guide
  • Co-facilitated conference of approximately 50 people to discuss results of LGBT minority report survey

Ithaca Women's Opportunity Center

United Way Summer of Service Intern
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Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
  • Taught established classes of 5-8 students on Microsoft Office products including Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
  • Designed and taught 2 new classes on personal skill identification
  • Updated and digitized over 100 confidential client files using Excel

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Bachelor's degree Philosophy
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2016 - Current